During my last night on Bunaken is overnight at 4 am knock on my door and fumbling at the door. I wake up and hear whispering on my porch. They are 3 staff members who have returned from the wedding in the village and now the party want to continue on the beach Two Fish. I pretend to sleep and after fifteen minutes they give up and drip off. I could not recognize the vote because there are quite soft and with a double tongue was spoken, so no idea who they were.
At breakfast it is apparent that most staff have it hard today. Almost everyone seems to have a hangover. Or as they call it here a "helicopter", a corruption of hang-over. I krig the account of 3 weeks Bunaken, say goodbye to everyone and put my stuff ready to go. It is low tide so the boats are a good distance from the coast. First, all bags, we leave with his fives today, in a boat the size bathtub to the boat. If the boat is back, that is still more than 50 meters from the beach is really time to leave. Nigel gets his camera still fast and takes a picture of me on their website: the 2nd Master Scuba Diver they have ever trained.
In the port of Manado is Rifka waiting with 4 taxis. Everyone gets in his own taxi, except James and Klaus, have come together climb a volcano, and at the office of Two Fish in Manado where you can checkout with credit card, we see each other very quickly for a while and then I go Lembeh. If I am to 11.15 am on Lembeh I greet Katherine and Michael, a German couple that was previously on Bunaken. Then I quickly put my camera together, diving grab my stuff together and fifteen minutes later I am already on the boat on its way to my first dive in Lembeh.
I won here last year through my stomach infection but 3 dives and I had forgotten how different, and almost bizarre, the underwater world is here. The soil consists of black (volcanic) sand and there is pretty much junk on the bottom. But in the sand between the gang life and the most strange and beautiful creatures. My guide and I find different types Franky nudibranches, frogfish, scorpionfish, octopus, puffer fish and porcupine fish. And these are the only species I know by name. Several other animals I've never seen before and I have no idea what they're called. But based on my photos, I can at least still Franky and Opo questions.
At 14.00 hours we're having lunch with three of us. The German couple was taciturn and disappears after fifteen minutes already off the table, to the only 2 beach chairs throughout the resort. They are also both tomorrow for me because if they leave tomorrow, I am the 2 days that still remains the only guest here. I have also an immediate prospect that song & the Vonda Shepard in my head:
"There you are in the evening 20 over 11, on a beach cigarettes to eliminate
Just look that was all you wanted, just because you only had so much to handle
Look at that, there is the great thinker, working on the border between land and sea
The 8th day, so 4 days to go yet, while the suffering or had suffered on day two
Going home, mmmm, home
I wanna go home, owl, to house
It seemed so nice some time for yourself, but you yourself not much to tell
So you stand on and it drags you to the beach until the moment comes when you finally can call
But not today, tomorrow may not and that is actually by what they said yesterday
She said love, when you have nothing to tell you do not need to call to me
Luckily my situation is very sad as the lyrics of the song. But I also wanted to get out, I really literally from morning to travel alone, and am of course in this area regularly on the "edge of land and sea," a regular even with a cigarette 
And I have less urge to go home than in the song, but inevitably approaching, I go home sometimes get a very pleasant prospect. But first enjoy even 6 dives at Lembeh!
The night dive had more surprises in store during the day. On June 1 dive frogfishes in 4 different colors, ghost pipefish, a swimming spotted eel, a snake eel that only his head stuck in the sand and culminating in a flamboyant cuttlefish. We would be up to an hour to go diving but there is much to see that after an hour we really are not ready for our feelings. After 75 minutes I got it anyway and I found it really cold enough. Certainly knowing that there is a cold shower then wait.
When I showered and got the pictures from the night dive watch shows again that underwater photography is an art anyway, and that course is not easier when you also have a camera next to a torch with you. And of course the camera can not focus in the dark, so that means the beast beschijnen with the lamp, focus the camera and hope you are not too many moves when you press the button.
The food at sea is slightly more varied than at Bunaken and dinner is also delicious. Mett fish, marinated and gebarbequed meat, fried potatoes, salad and hot vegetable.
The German couple go immediately after dinner to their house. I stay here sitting with Opo, one of the guides, and Franz, the captain. But after 1 beer (of 750 cl. I think it is beautiful. Tomorrow 3 dives, and then I added the whole resort to myself ...
