Truk Blue Lagoon Resort
Travel Blogs from Chuuk
Skulls, Sake bottles and decompression stops.
Wrecks dived: Shinkoku Maru; Rio de Janeiro Maru; Yamagiri Maru
By now our days were settling into a comfortable routine: wake at 7am; breakfast at 7.30am with the rest of the group; on the boat at 9am; and, usually by 9.30 we were being dazzled by Dom's newest lycra exposure suit - today being the stripy blue, lime and yellow number. …
The big, BLACK hole dive.
The Heian Maru is the largest merchant freighter lying at the bottom of Truk lagoon.
She rests on her starboard side which for me meant a completely new orientation to get my head around. It was a little deeper than the previous dives and as I was getting comfortable suspended in the deep blue at 36metres under the surface, Meck indicated …
Diving in a drowned volcano.
Have a look at the map alongside, and zoom right in so you can see the small island group of Chuuk. We stayed on the southerly tip of Weno at the Blue Lagoon Resort, near the small village of Neiwe, where historically the Japanese had their seaplane base. (The old bomb shelter and bunker is still intact in the gardens of the resort, and along the …
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Hmmm. Where to begin?
I am overdue in adding to my blog over the last week or so, and I apologise but the last few days have been jam-packed with diving and any leisure time results in involuntary napping.
Chuuk is a small group of islands floating in a lagoon that sits within an ancient volcano crater. It is a part of …
Feeling Wrecked!
Our week in Chuuk at the Blue Lagoon has come to an end. I have seen enough rusty boats to last a lifetime and I'm ready for a good, clean, clear, blue reef dive. I think, though, perhaps we might be in for a surprise in Palau. we hear that the weather is going to turn nasty in this part of the world. Apparently the Mike Ball Livaboard out of …
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