Indonesia Day 12
Today was our next to the last day of diving, so we decided
to take full advantage and do three dives, two in the morning and one in the
afternoon. Yesterday a new guest, Peter,
arrived at the resort when Hinne left.
Peter flew directly from Denmark so was a bit tired when he arrived
yesterday afternoon and was not sure if he was going to feel like diving
today. However, he said he slept very
well and was ready to go out and do the first two dives of the morning.
After we all had breakfast together, we left around 8 a.m.
for the first two dives of the day. The
first dive was at Fukui. I am running
out of words to describe the dive sites.
They are all so beautiful with lots of colorful coral and tons of fish
and turtles. We had a very relaxing dive
gliding along.
The second dive site was at Likuan 2, which we have done
before, but is very nice also. Of course
we saw more turtles than you can count along with tons of fish. This dive site got a little busy after we jumped
in, but I’m sure it can get much busier in high season. We have just been spoiled having most of the
dive sites completely to ourselves.
After the second dive we made our way back to the resort and
got cleaned up in time to have lunch at 1 o’clock. Peter decided he was going to take the
afternoon off, but Eric and I were going to do the afternoon dive at 3
o’clock. Following a nice relaxing lunch
and good conversation with Chi, Spencer, and Peter, we made our way back down
to the dive shop to head out for our final dive of the day.
Our last dive of the day was at Muka Kampung. It was another very nice wall dive. At several points during the dive we had some
pretty good current, so we were flying down the wall with turtles coming at us
from above and below and head-on. I have
so much turtle video by now we could probably make a couple hour documentary on
turtles.
Eric had so many problems with his strobes on this trip he
finally packed them up yesterday and called it quits on the photos. One strobe flooded and then the other one was
having so many issues it only worked half the time, so he just decided to take
the Go-Pro out today to get some boat shots and some shallow water shots when
possible.
Day 13
Today was our last full day in Indonesia. I woke up this morning feeling like I might
be coming down with a bit of a head cold, so I decided to skip the diving and
just rest. After breakfast, Eric and the
other guest, Peter, set off to do the two morning dives.
They made the bit longer journey over to the other island,
Manado Tua (the volcano-looking island) to dive two sites on the south side. Eric said the first dive site had a lot of
current and the visibility was not great, but of course they still saw a ton of
fish. The second dive site was a bit
more relaxed with a lot less current and better visibility. At second dive site they saw two sea snakes
hunting—which we had been wanting to see.
After the two morning dives, they made their way back to the
resort and we began the process of attempting to get all our dive gear dried
out and start packing everything up.
We will be taking a boat back to Manado, Indonesia tomorrow
morning around 9 a.m. The boat ride can
take anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour, depending on how rough the ocean is,
and then it is about a 30-minute to an hour car ride to the airport, again
depending on traffic. Since it is Easter
weekend, we aren’t sure if the traffic will be light or heavy. Our flight leaves Manado airport for Singapore
around 2 p.m.
If everything is running on time, we should arrive in
Singapore around 5:30 p.m. and we already have dinner reservations at the
Italian restaurant we ate at and really liked, Rosso Vino. We will then be spending the night in
Singapore and fly out the next morning for the 16-hour direct flight from
Singapore to San Francisco.
This vacation has gone by way too fast.
