Manado & more training

A day Manado was delicious. I was dropped off at the Mega Mall, which in reality is not so "mega" and began the day with a double espresso. Very good, a good cup of coffee after a few weeks instant coffee. At the 2nd double espresso, I myself also treated to a blueberry cheesecake. After shopping done as ear drops, toothpaste, sunscreen and some nice things. I have at the end of the afternoon in some sense always zouts, so I hit mostly in chips and pretzels. Furthermore, I get some chocolate and muffins for dessert after dinner for everyone.

The chocolate and muffins after eating literally received with cheers. Everyone feels like something sweet after dinner. The rest of the night remains quiet and we continue to 22.30 at the table with a few new guests (Emma, ​​a British, Cecilia, an American living in Japan, Klaus a German who lives in Singapore and an Irishman James) who all traveling alone. Furthermore, her day is Lucy stopped by to say goodbye to Theresa that the next evening her last evening. Because it is not working smoothly with the approval of Lucy she must leave the country to get a new one and she goes Tuesdays for 3 days to Singapore.

Lucy's boat shows, however, in the afternoon to leave on Tuesday morning so she will still take the submarine to me a number of Rescue skills to teach. If the rest is diving exercises we do on and around the boat. During the surface interval Lucy test my skills by doing or she drowns, but I know her in no time to get safely aboard ;-)

I will go with him on the 2nd dive and we were flying over an hour with a good momentum in the flow along a beautiful wall.

In the afternoon, enjoy an hour I lie asleep in the lounge chairs and listen to my ipod. After dinner we have the farewell party for Theresa. She has 24 bottles (each about a pint) palm wine ordered. Each bottle is mixed or diluted with a bottle of coke and then go around the can and everyone is deemed to be a bottom of a glass in one gulp drink. I am quite used to drink this nasty after 3 Two Fish Divers, but for some others this is the first time they drink, and the cut on some firmly ...

Risco, the texts of the 2 most local singing Indonesian songs for me and Theresa issued and we try to sing along. After a time, or 3, we have to deal with more or less. Then, disable the "band" over to English songs and we do (several times) Leaving on a jet plane, "" Hey Jude "," I want to break free "," What's up "and" Wonderwall ". At 23.30 the festivities will move to the beach. Emma, ​​Klaus and Cecilia are all going to sleep and Theresa and I now also hooks off. What remains is a man or 10 of the staff, Pim and James.

At breakfast Pim not see too well and James did not appear. I sail out with Tina, Nigel Pim and a training day. We start with my last wreck dive. Just before we enter the wreck Nigel finds a blue-ringed octopus. A beautiful beast but very toxic. In the wreck I go first and we go inside the earth is dark and we can not continue. We end our dive on the reef next to the wreck.

After half an hour on the boat we begin the Rescue skills and I have a panicked diver underwater to rest, a missing diver search and an unconscious diver to the surface.

Also again after half an hour on the boat and then my 3rd, and 1 penultimate, Search & Recovery dive. I need to find something on the bottom they tell me what size or how big it is. Pim and I look for in a so-called Jachstay pattern and find after 20 minutes of an empty Coke bottle that Nigel more or less in the sand has buried.

We are relatively late by 3 dives back into the resort where we had lunch on the attack. Then I get told that I should move to another cabin but luckily the staff helps me pack and carry. It is quite a mess in the hut where I already 2 weeks in residential and Theresa has bags full of stuff that I left Saturday to give to Lucy. So 4 men of the staff have their hands full with all the loose bags and of course my big bag.

If I'm just installed in my new Sea-view house (no sea view as there is a large mangrove between the beach and the open sea) call Jur. He is fed up because he lost his wallet. I can not remotely do more than try to come up with practical solutions. At such moments Indonesia is quite far away and it is also known for Jur wimp that I am not around.

While I am writing this message on the blackberry and distance of the group of 10 new Dutch / Belgian Limburg or guests watch, the kitchen staff brings us the afternoon snack. A delicious kind of cake with palm sugar and coconut on the inside from outside. Blessed! And what can you still be happy for small things :-)

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