Today's activity, Diving!... amongst other things.
Meeting the girls I met last night who convinced me to go diving today I geared up at the dive center and boarded the boat with a bunch of others and we set off to Goat island, apparently one of the better locations to dive.
Today involved two dives, both lasting around an hour each where there was plenty of things to see, from sharks, colorful coral, sea slugs, turtles, sea snakes, a minuscule seahorse and of course plenty of vibrant fish. Not nearly as interesting as the diving was in Galapagos but nevertheless these dives were fantastic with great visibility and plenty to see.
The crew on the boat including us 6 tourists were all good fun to be around and we all thoroughly enjoyed our morning out in the open ocean.
One interesting thing today was that when one of the crew members was checking out the second dive spot he surfaced to yell out "Shark, Shark"... most people's response would be "Argh" and stay on the boat, but on the contrary for us diver's our train of thought works a little differently, first yelling "where is my mask" and upon finding it jumping into the water to see the thing - it was incredibly amusing.
I'm not going to lie, this trip was expensive and worthwhile but partly the reason why I went on this diving trip is because I rather fancied one of the girls I met yesterday, Jaya, from Luxembourg also a Gado-Gado - meaning half Asian mix, Cambodia specifically and she is just stunning.
Arriving back in Bira in the afternoon both fatigued from the diving we went on a walk to see the ship building process not far from the harbor. Now this was epic! These enormous vessels that are hand built out of wood take a year and a half to construct and sell for a billion rupiah... That's roughly $100,000; built using basic and blunt tools and to watch the builders put the thing together is a marvel in itself. Staggering!
I'm not going to romanticize the events surrounding the evening with Jaya because that is hard to avoid simply because it involved a sunset, all you need to know is that it was a activity filled day and the same could be said about the evening and unlike yesterday I got my second wind of energy.
Unfortunately I don’t have any pictures from the dive.
The children around Bira, Sulwesi, Indonesia
Amazing, the ship building process
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