The first day's diving is always a bit of a pootle. Weights have to be adjusted, old skills remembered and new buddies found and tamed. So we weren't expecting very much from the day apart from that lovely feeling of being on holiday and getting back into warm water with fantastic visibility again.

I took a couple of photos - anenome fish, bit of coral, more anenome fish... ooh, a big fat trigger fish. Fabulous. I lined up the shot and was about to press the button when I became aware of my buddy yelling his head off (didn't know you could do that at 10m but clearly, you can). I turned to see what the crisis was and was astounded to see five dolphins bounding toward us. I had just enough time to click my camera button and they were gone, sniggering all the way.

It was a complete fluke and happened so fast that two other divers with us didn't even have time to switch on their cameras before the dolphins were out of sight. Never mind, it gave me ample gloating ammunition for the rest of the trip. Now if only I could have found a hammerhead or two to go with them...