Diving Pulau Pinang and Back Home

Trip Start Jul 04, 2008
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Trip End Jul 06, 2008


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Where I stayed
White Manta
(Singapore hotels)

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Sunday, July 6, 2008

The next morning Chris wanted us to get up and into it early so that we could get home quickly because it is about 8hrs boat trip back to Singapore. We were up at about 6:30am and in the water before 7:30am. We were supposed to dive a pinnacle a short distance from where we did our night dive but it looked like a strong current was running so we decided to dive next to the granite wall again and drift a little from one end to the other.

Again it was only about 10-15m for the dive from "Frog Rock" to "Nudi Rock". The fish were not so different from the previous dive. Nudis, parrot fish, bat fish, jacks, sea slugs and some great soft and hard corals.

The seas picked up a little after the first dive so we basically dove the same spot for our 6th and final dive for the weekend but there is plenty of room to look for new things just before the last dive
just before the last dive
 . There were a few small swim throughs, rock overhangs with fish and crabs hiding underneath and on the last dive it was time to take stupid photos so we had a bit of fun with the YMCA, etc....

Back on board and time for the trip home. We got back to Tanah Merah by about 8:30pm and home by 9:30pm. I was exhausted and the ground was moving once I got home for a full day before I got my land legs back...

Great trip and pretty good value..not as cheap as diving in a Philippino resort where you can walk off the beach, but still not bad for 6 dives and all food and accomodation (about US$450 all up excluding gear rental)
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