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Emma and Sara's Excellent Freediving Adventures...

...are almost at an end (for now )

After four weeks of freediving almost non-stop, we decided to get dry and head off to the desert today Emma dashed down the sand dunes in search of a rich bedouin but found nothing but mounds of sand and a baby camel...

We followed the instructions carefully and avoided local ladies as well (or they avoided us!)
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Re: Emma and Sara's Excellent Freediving Adventures...

...then we watched the sunset and headed off for dinner where we watched a rather strange creature belly-dancing... and it wasn't either of us...

I gave her first prize as the Mick Jagger lookalike.
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Re: Emma and Sara's Excellent Freediving Adventures...

The moon shone and then it was time to come home... all in all an excellent day and good ending to some long days in the water.

More to follow this week...
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Re: Emma and Sara's Excellent Freediving Adventures...

And some of the students... one showing how to use latex gloves during the EFR course , another who had been eating beans after diving, and some alarming looking postures during rescue scenarios...
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Re: Emma and Sara's Excellent Freediving Adventures...

A Cute little photo of adolphin's boy having a snorkelling session with Emma in the pool...
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Re: Emma and Sara's Excellent Freediving Adventures...

haha looks like a lot of fun island_sands! i like that latex glove idea :P the beans might have been a bit of a problem lol
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Re: Emma and Sara's Excellent Freediving Adventures...

Nice camel. It seems that those warnings say your guide is an expert on the local ladies How come he gets to have all the fun?
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Re: Emma and Sara's Excellent Freediving Adventures...

Excellent stuff! About the only thing missing was me!
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A Cute little photo of adolphin's boy having a snorkelling session with Emma in the pool...
That's my boy ..
Thanks for the pic sands .. the session was fantastic .. Mohammad loved it and jumping all over my back every day on when is he going to do it again, not to mention his 4 year old sister Amna .. .. that was a great experience for both of them .. .. and hey! knowing that we watched black tips in the shark island! .. they considered me holding some conspiracy against them, I told them they might look like a great tiny meal for the sharks .. they laughed at me as I was trying to pull out from the imbaresment .. they said that when ever I go to that thing so called shark island again.. they should be the first two to jump in .. .. now don't I have a point with the sharkie meal thing ?! .. I mean those two are realy tiny creatures compared to the blacks ! .. that might tempt them to go for bite or two !
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...are almost at an end (for now )

After four weeks of freediving almost non-stop, we decided to get dry and head off to the desert today Emma dashed down the sand dunes in search of a rich bedouin but found nothing but mounds of sand and a baby camel...

We followed the instructions carefully and avoided local ladies as well (or they avoided us!)
Alright! .. at last Emma got to chance to take a break and have a look around .. (I know we exhauseted her out .. specially me .. ) .. but finaly she looks realy pleased and happy ..
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Oh you girls! All work and no play You'll be very lonely Ms Sands when Emma leaves Dubai back to glorious old Blighty.......
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I am going to miss her like mad!!! We are like sisters... we even sit in bed together at night with our jamas on and look at stuff on the net, drink tea, giggle... it's been excellent having her here, i have never laughed so much and she has also been a godsend in assisting me to become a free and single woman again
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I am going to miss her like mad!!! We are like sisters... we even sit in bed together at night with our jamas on and look at stuff on the net, drink tea, giggle... it's been excellent having her here, i have never laughed so much and she has also been a godsend in assisting me to become a free and single woman again

OMG single again? Watch out eligible bachelors of the Middle East. How did she assist you in singledom, shoot somebody
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but she felt like it... in fact, we both did
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