Today we went out diving with Mandy in search of the wreck of the Japanese Zero. We managed to find a boat captain that knew where the wreck was located. He had just been out to it within the last year, so we had him show us where it was located. Eric and I went down looking for the plane with Fabio, one of the instructors with Neco. Unfortunately, there was an extremely strong current and the visibility was horrible. We spent all of our time just trying to swim against the strong current and never could locate the plane.
Needless to say, by the time we surfaced and the boat picked us up we were exhausted. We definitely burned a few calories on that dive. After that we went and had lunch on Lee Marvin beach, which was the location for the 1968 film Hell in the Pacific staring Lee Marvin. We walked around on the beach and took a few pictures. It was very pretty.
After lunch we got back on the boat and headed to a salt water lake in the rock islands to do some snorkeling. We saw a baby cuttlefish and two or three little pipefish, but nothing really spectacular.
We then got back on the boat and headed to a spot called the Sand Pit to dive. Again, the visibility was really bad and we ended up not seeing anything. According to Mandy, she often finds many kinds of rays there as it is a nice sandy “bowl,” which is the perfect environment for them. Unfortunately, it just was not a good day for diving the east side.
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