One of the main reasons I started free diving was simply to enjoy the journey. What you may ask do I mean by that? Well its simple, like most things in life the reality of something we have always wanted or a place we have always wanted to go to almost never meets the picture we have painted for ourselves with our minds eye.
It is more often than not the road taking us to this goal or destination that keeps us talking for many years after we have returned from this destination or goal that we have achieved.
Well, that is simply the ride that has totally captured me, and of course the fact that I can be in the water.
The 31 December 2010 was just one such day...Naturally there has been quite a bit of free diving talk around the house and my 3yr 10 month old son has picked up on the action. So on this day, he arrives back at home from a trip with my wife and tells me he is going free diving now, in the pool and I must get ready to join him.
Mask (or goggles as referred to by my little Mayol) and snorkel and off he goes. Now I need to add at this point that he has never actually had a mask on near a body of water, let alone a snorkel in his mouth, but he is marching to the pool in a similar fashion to the little Enzo Maiorca in the flick " The Big Blue" to dive out the coin which the kids have spotted in the water on the seas edge.
Determined he puts my mask on and snorkel in, and pops his head in the water. It wasn't until he came up and I looked into his big blue eyes that I realised quite how blown away he was that he could see the bottom of the pool. That was a fantastic moment for me! Absolutely amazing...Even more amazing is how he just keeps on chatting away with his head under the water through the snorkel to me.
Make the journey happen for yourself, no one else is going to make it happen for you!
