Window of Opportunity

 

Green Shoots

What is the halfway point between William Gibson & Portland?

How to spent it

Saturday 7am up already. 

Kid on Christmas morning.

Ride up and through Palm Oil plantations.

Along empty kampong morning roads.

Too early at the Jetty. 

Just in time for a Malaysian Street Burger breakfast.

Boat arrives an hour early.

Board in full riding garb. 

20-mins later. 

Coral reef beach hut lined beach.

43% likely spent. 57% compounding. 

Choose your own adventure. Lest you lose it all to time. 

 

Freediving Test

Shaky Cam. What can you expect from a Hero 4 that came out in 2014? Likely time for a new camera, or more patience when filming. Or or, maybe a few more words.

Freediving is a funny sport. Because like running, most of it comes down to you. Yes, there is gear but honestly some rocks and a mask could get you there. 

The rocks. Lead weights that is. You will need those. Not too much, just a few kg's. They of course are heavy, because they're weights. So I have never bought the belt or weights themselves. Why? Well most dive shops will let you borrow them for free or charge you a tiny bit for a few days. 

So it went at Rimba. The regular walk down to the dive shop and a request for some weights. However this time around the weights came with a boat. 

It was lucky timing, the dive boat was full and I had my own gear. There was however a bit of a test. 

The test came in the form of the divemaster saying the scuba divers had used up all of the weights. While the lack of weights would make the dive harder, the chance for a free ride out to a dive site was reward enough. 

Hence it was funny when at 6 meters I heard banging and looked over at the dive master. There in his hand was 1.5 kg's of lead. And with that the test was passed and from then on I had all the weights required to hit 10 meters and deeper with ease.

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