Truk Stop Hotel Chuuk
P.O. Box 546, Weno Chuuk, 96942, Micronesia
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Truk Blue Lagoon Resort Chuuk
45 reviews
Last review: Jan 15, 2012<1 mile SE of Truk Stop Hotel
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Happy birthday, Hubby !!!
This is a top pick! Indeed, yesterday, I did not dive. My knee was painful and I HAVE to dive today. I just laid in bed with my leg in the air, ice on it and painkillers. But today, it is Dr T's 44!!! I have a little present and a stupid card for when he wakes up. He is a difficult man to buy presents for, let alone in Micronesia! I arrange for some stuff yesterday, …
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Diving holiday
We are back from 11 days travelling with 8 of those days in Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon. This was our 1st big dive trip for years and it was just wonderful. I had forgotten how beautiful the underwater can be. I don't have an underwater camera, but I will try to get some photos from others and post on this site later. I will include a couple of above water pics.
It is a long time travelling, from Brisbane to Cairns, wait 5 hours, Cairns ...
Skulls, Sake bottles and decompression stops.
... travelled more than about half an hour from our resort to reach them. Invariably, by 9.45am we were already underwater and in another world.
Ideally, we would do two dives in the morning, and return for new tanks and lunch at the "chook-shack" before heading out for our third dive in the afternoon. The "chook-shack" was the nickname we gave a small prefab shack near the dive shop that served home cooked meals to ...
The big, BLACK hole dive.
... of the ship.
The rest of the group was just behind me, so what could I do but follow him into a profound and rusty blackness. I stayed close, so close that I could read the tiny black writing on the soles of Meck's black and yellow fins (it read, “EAT ME!!”).
Picture this:
It is friggin dark.
My torch cuts a very narrow beam of light illuminating suspended rust and debris in the watery gloom, for this ...
Diving in a drowned volcano.
... outlined by the subtle line of atolls surrounding the islands and creating the lagoon. There are 4 passages entering the lagoon, and these passages are narrower than is suggested by the map; restricting and controlling entry into this sheltered lagoon state. It is no wonder then, that the Japanese chose Truk to harbour the largest Imperial war fleet anchorage outside of Tokyo.
Kimiou Aisek's diving legacy, the Blue Lagoon Dive Shop is alongside the resort. All our ...
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