Tganga

Day three in Tatganga the bus took about 17 hours to finally makit to Santa Marta. there was a lot of random stopping towards the end between Barquilla and Santa Marta. the bus has what i thought was air brakes as there is an airhose connected to the wheels. Apon closer inspection we have decided that there is a compressor to inflate and deflate the tires depending on the altitude since the bus goes from sea level clear up and over the Andes, which are well over 12,ooo feet. Around Santa Marta looked like a dump similiar to the out skirts of T-Juana. We took a $5 taxi for a 10 miniute ride through the ghetto to end up on a beautiful little fishing villiage called Taganga. We went down and sat on the beach with a couple of Cervesa while christian and thomas (one of the three Danes, who speaks the best English)went and looked for accomodations and a good dive center. We ended up at a cute little two story place one block from the beach. Me and two of the Danes are getting our advanced open water, the third Dane is diving for the first time and Christian and Steve (USA) are already dive masters. Yesterday our dives were boyancy which i need plenty of practice at, and navigational which i also was horrible at. Today we did deep dive, 1'00 feet, that was kind of cool cause they brought down with us an empty water bottle and showed us the pressure, the dive guy also cracked a raw egg underwater and it sort of stayed in the shape of an egg because of the pressure. After that dive we did a current dive. The two Danes did a night dive just now, but i had allready done one so i am instead tomorrow morning diving with dive computer or fancy watch that does everything for you. Then i guess i will be certified to dive where ever when ever. Chrisitian is headed out tomorrow for a 5 day hike to the Lost City, My leg will not handle that so i may either go with Steve and the three Danes to Cartenga or stay here and dive. The Danes seem to woop it up more than i am into, so i may just stay here and relax and dive. When Christian gets back, We will head back down to Medellin for a few days and then either bus, or fly to Quito, Equador and the Galopogas Islands. I still have not felt one bit of danger anywhere i have been here in Colombia, which is nice.