{"id":2365,"date":"2012-07-17T21:56:47","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T04:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=2365"},"modified":"2012-07-17T21:58:30","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T04:58:30","slug":"visit-to-blue-eye-albania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=2365","title":{"rendered":"Visit To Blue Eye, Albania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>July 12, 2012*<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/blueeye4.JPG' alt='Blue Eye, Albania' \/><\/p>\n<p>Blue Eye is a cold, fresh water spring that gushes out of a cave.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/blueeye6.JPG' alt='Blue Eye, Albania' \/><\/p>\n<p>This was suppose to be one of our dives, but we both called it before we got here &#8211; neither of us are rated for cave diving, neither of us had a working light, no personal redundant gear and even though I was assured, &#8220;If something happens, the water pressure will push you back up; the challenge is staying down,&#8221; we both said no to this one.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m diving in a country with no recreational diving support, but I&#8217;m not insane!<\/p>\n<p>You can drink the water, and I did; it was cold and tasted good.<\/p>\n<p>Then I looked at two swimmers in the water and hoped they didn&#8217;t pee in it.<\/p>\n<p>Relaxing Blue Eye:<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/blueeye2.JPG' alt='blue eye' \/><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/blueeye3.JPG' alt='blue eye' \/><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/blueeye5.JPG' alt='blue eye' \/><\/p>\n<p>After an hour soaking our feet in the cold water, we headed to the restaurant for lunch and a cold beer.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/blueeye1.JPG' alt='Blue Eye Restaurant' \/><\/p>\n<p>The problem is, the beer was as warm as piss.<\/p>\n<p>Idit told the waiter to put our beers in the freezer until our lunch was ready.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/blueeye7.JPG' alt='Fresh fish, salad, with olive oil as dressing, and bread, along with a big beer.' \/><\/p>\n<p>Fresh fish, salad, with olive oil as dressing, and bread, along with a big beer.<\/p>\n<p>That set me back 1400 LEK ($14).<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/blueeye8.JPG' alt='blue eye' \/><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/blueeye9.JPG' alt='blue eye' \/><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/blueeye10.JPG' alt='blue eye' \/><\/p>\n<p>We took off and headed back to Porto Palermo in Saranda.<\/p>\n<p>We passed by a Gypsy town&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/gypsietown778q.JPG' alt='A Gypsy Town in Albania' \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Seeing people live like this makes me feel so fortunate that I an American, even though we have homeless towns that look the same.<\/p>\n<p><em>*Due to time constraints, lack of reliable internet access outside of Tirana, power outages in Tirana and the strength of Albanian beer, posting of this article has been delayed.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 12, 2012* Blue Eye is a cold, fresh water spring that gushes out of a cave. This was suppose to be one of our dives, but we both called it before we got here &#8211; neither of us are rated for cave diving, neither of us had a working light, no personal redundant gear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}