The weather is less, not diving!

If we get up on Sunday morning the weather is imminent. The wind blows hard, there are big whitecaps at sea and it is very cloudy. Nevertheless it is, if we keep the door from us at 25 degrees through the air-cooled house, still quite warm outside. To be sure we check whether we have here the anti-sea sickness bands with us because it will be rocking on the waves. And then we go to breakfast. At breakfast we now have a "personal waiter": Hassan. If we are around 8 hours as one of the first to come into the restaurant he immediately coffee, orange juice and water for us up. And after 20 minutes we set out on our Ikea bags deal to go diving. If we reach the jetty is just a sea plane ready for takeoff. The trolley-men (the men in the car with diving equipment from the dive boat to the drive) to keep us from the propellers of the aircraft at full speed to turn. And 10 seconds later we know why: there is a huge saltwater shower on the dock by the seaplane that speed makes.

On the boat we analyze our Nitrox tanks, makes our dive gear ready and get a briefing on the first dive site for half an hour away, but our guide expected that the sea is restless to go to the briefing. And he gets it right! Marije does her straps and prevents fish that they must perform, but nobody feels really fresh after the boat ride. When the guide has checked the flow at the place of destination, there appears to be virtually no current to be. A disappointment because it means that the probability of large wild animals such as sharks and rays is small during this dive. Underwater fins we slowly over the reef and the channel is normally a strong current state and see dozens especially moray eels, puffer fish a few who have entrenched in the coral and Napoleon Wrasses, who actually sit on each dive site.

The captain of the boat looking for a relatively quiet stretch of coast in the lee of a small uninhabited island for our surface interval to spend. And after exactly one hour, we go under. This time on a coral reef with many blocks, overhangs and small canyons. Many fish hide out for the currents and large predatory fish in this area and it is really full house in terms of fish. There is not much flow but the flow which is going down (called a down current) and we see some of our fellow divers struggling to not always go deeper. We really begin to notice that every dive we are very much advantage of our hundreds of dives (more than 450 Juriaan and Marije over 480) because we have little difficulty in adapting to changing circumstances. But a peaceful idea. Especially when we see that the guide is very little heed of his guests. He bounces up and down (from 25 to 13 meters and then back to 20) and is especially busy with his own camera. This we have not seen a guide that only with themselves busy. And after an hour when we next come to the surface of the guide we have to wait until the other divers who have surfaced a little further on board. And if we turn our guide disappeared, a look underwater shows that there are apparently at 7 meters depth was something beautiful that had to be photographed because he is descended, wonderful figure ....

If we are around 13 hours back to the island the weather is still little refurbishment. But lunch draws slowly. All the more reason to so soon again together the water going into the reef after Juriaan his cat nap and Marije has done an hour in the shade with her ipod is located. Around 4 o'clock we returned to the dive center. We move our equipment and walk to the bus stop on the dock. There's a somewhat dazed Brit to the bottom to see: he has his shirt in the water drop and is now at 3 m depth in the soil, whether we can emerge .... Of course. But we have our first tank, connect the tanks because we do not have to drag around on the jetty, which will be ready in time if you put "ordered" and that we always do before we in the morning on the boat. But Marije her tank is gone ..... Grrrrrr! There is still a 12 liter (and larger than our 10 liter tanks, and we are also next to the dive guides the only those 10 liter tanks to use the rest of the guests used 12 or even 15 liter tanks) tank, so that takes Juriaan then. Marije pops the shirt of a grateful Brit and we can enjoy underwater on their way to the wreck. Some of the usual suspects are not present today on the wreck: no Napoleon, no Bump Head Parrot Fish. But luckily the other residents there and we even see a mantis shrimp in the wreck. After an hour and 10 minutes we are back at the shackles that the entrance to the highway for boats and seaplanes mark in the harbor. And if we want to cross this highway is just a sea plane prepares to sail / fly so we're stabbing at turbo speed ....

After the dive we go in the pool are and what we talk with a diving Dutch couple with 2 small children (who thus turns babysitting while the other dives) and drink a beer. Then take a shower and then enjoy dinner at the Sea Food Restaurant "The Beach". If we are well and good are 8 noisy Russians who demand that a table is created for them on the beach. The couple thought that romantic dinner on the beach right next to the additional table for the Russians is moved within a few minutes to the deck (the decking at the edge of the beach where we sit). Without some form of medicinal drink the Russians and they are on the table to sing loudly. We suddenly see a good business case for "free Russia" resorts that you occasionally see in ads ;-)

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