On Thursday morning thunderstorm not, it does not pour with rain and even what it actually seems to brighten. We did not (dive) plan and made the weather so we can wait but just the water. Just after 9 am we write us at the diving board for a reef dive at exit 7 and then we eat breakfast. This time, well before "closing" and apparently many people today start slowly because it is quite full in our restaurant. Now it's here every day busier because Christmas is coming and then the resort is 100% full, we have heard. After a fine mirror egg and a mountain tropical fruits we are ready for (first some much needed espresso) and then we go armed with our cameras, our dive gear in order. And they are neat to exit 7, next to the Spa, charged.
We walk into the water and already in the shallow part, on the sand for the reef, shooting the schools of fish as we explained to the edge of the reef running into our suits and with 20kg on our backs. This seems shore diving sports, especially if the reef like exit 7 bit further from the coast. There is virtually no flow and then will know how late it is: little fish and especially for our brisk swim at 1 exit further overcome the water than we have gone, we remain truly enormous slow swimmers 
. After a minute or 20 Juriaan see something move out of his corner: an octopus. We look at a distance where the octopus on the reef or crawl and swim to get there quietly to him (or her?) Does not go away. And it works perfectly. We fototgraferen and shoot us a pleasure it is, but the film would be aadig if this baby would move, or even a bit of us would scare the "poor would take." Outside a continuous change of color and a little shift, the octopus thing. So not very spectacular film, see for yourself:
If after an hour just to exit 8 does the sun come up a cautious attempt to break through. Would it fall again after 24 hours of summer? We just diving into the pool and dry on a Iced Coffee. After lunch we decide to do an afternoon dive on the south side of the island. Relax in the water at exit 4 and underwater see whether we turn to the east (if outgoing current) or west (for incoming current). It appears to be low tide (which we did in the tide table to find, but good) and we go east. The flow takes us on a leisurely pace along the reef and after an hour we are actually 2 exits further (for us to do an Olympic long-distance swimming record on the reef). It is extremely low tide and immediately become the buoy at the edge of the reef we step on the sand which is no more than calf deep in this tide. And it is again quite a workout: walking with a bottle on your back, a few pounds of lead in your BCD, fins and camera in hand. We link to the picnic table and the bottles on the terrace of the bar (where another whole tribes to drink sitting) and the restaurant we come back to the dive center. Even our stuff and then rinse rinse ourselves good again in the infinity pool at our own bar & restaurant.
If we just after sunset, which yet again is largely hidden behind the clouds, we jump in the shower and suddenly hear ....... Yes, another downpour. Too early to cheer the end of autumn. At the front of our house you can see that the soil has become quite saturated in recent days and the water remains standing on the sand. If after half an hour is not dry yet we wade, armed with umbrellas, to the bar where it is very quiet this time. Anyone will be outside waiting ..... But when we arrived around 20.15 hours the "crossing" to make the restaurant is almost dry, and after dinner we even see stars. We keep hoping for a bit of sun the next day, because besides that it is so delicious that makes the movies and photos also much prettier!
And sun was there! The Friday starts shining, as you expect when you night see the stars as there were last night. 2 boat dives we do today: 1 in the morning and 1 after lunch. We leave around 9 hours with 14 (!) But all very experienced divers. We sail to Kuda Rah Thila, one of the favorite dive sites dive staff here. We are promised a lot of fish and sharks! If we, for a medium to strong current in Illy our guide for today, make a negative entry, we see that unfortunately the visibility is not supreme best. But you can not have everything for a minute we have the first shark in sight. And during the dive, we become almost giddy with the huge schools of tropical fish that are generally kind to kind of swimming but occasionally even mixing. Or neatly sidestep a shark (which, fortunately for this school was not hungry at the moment).
We are pleased and delighted over water, even despite the somewhat limited view, this was a TOP dive! And still the sun shines, so that's double happiness We just ironed down by the pool, take a dip and a Iced Coffee, pulling stuff to dry quickly and then go have lunch at 14 pm because we have already on the boat for the afternoon dive. We are almost in the same group as of the morning on the road. Illy is a comprehensive briefing before we sailed, we will create a channel-dive. On this spot the sea flows Atoll in or out (depending on the tide) and these places are known for the enormous flow and the associated large fish.
On "the scene" Illy check the flow. This is as expected from the north and is strong to very strong. The less good news is that the view here is even more limited than in the morning dive. It takes some effort to master us in the right place, about 50 to 100 meters upstream from the open sea on the reef to drop, but after some maneuvering we can jump. With the whole group we descend quickly down and fins we hard against the current to ensure that we are exactly at the edge of the plateau at 30 meters out. We'd have our rifhaken behind a rock hooks and then "in the Blue" look out for big game. Would ...... For we see at one point the reef like mad to pass us. We can just grab a rock halfway between the reef and hang in there a few minutes in the flow: as a flag in a storm and calling our disappear horizontally with the flow (instead of their natural path to follow, right up to the surface) . We climb over some rocks to something near the Thila to come but there is no stopping it. And after 20 minutes we see the first buddy pair because they have been rising briskly through their air hit. After 30 minutes, we keep it also seen. But it's not so easy to quietly take off in the open sea: behind the reef, the flow behaves like a washing machine and the flow comes from all sides and brings us even now and then a little down. But eventually we arrive neatly to 5 meters and doing our safety stop. On the surface, as we blow out of the effort to pick up our boat. And the sun still shines stes (although there is a thunderstorm on the horizon is that later turns over happily around us or floats). Quiet (reef) diving, a beautiful fish with overcrowded Thila and a jet fighter flight in a Channel. Of everything in 48 hours. Just like the weather: wind, rain, sun, storm and calm 
Illy is visibly relieved that we're all safely on board and he apologizes for the bad visibility (as if anything can do ). And then we can enjoy the pool, drinking a liter of cold water and then were again Juriaan hurry. He asked if he's allowed to cook in the kitchen for dinner. Something for 18 hours, he raised the bar by the Food & Beverage manager who takes him behind the scenes!
