Nusa Lembongan

Trip Start Mar 04, 2008
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Trip End Jun 04, 2008


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Thursday, May 22, 2008

After another 50 minutes boat ride we arrived at Nusa Lembongan. The island has a few fairly nice resorts and no much more, the town is small and in reality there is not much to do. The beaches are fairly poor unless that you venture out, at least that is what we were told. The bungalow was very nice for the price 75.000 rupiahs only 20 meters from the water and in the afternoon at low tide you can see the seaweed farming action right in front of you.
Besides diving that is all the excitement that you are going to get here, at 10 pm fairly much all is quiet.
The diving was very good, with vis around 70 feet and very healthy coral. The water temp is around 82 degrees but with constant currents of very cold water, all the locals dive with 5 mm full wetsuit and a 3 mm hooded vest!!! and usually fairly strong also, pushing you in every direction ,  so be ready for it.
The marine life is  very good, from frog fish to sea horses and everything in between. On my last day we went to Manta Point, no much of a reef but famous for having Mantas. The place is a little far away, around Nusa Penida , and difficult to get due to the sea conditions, but once again in this trip I was rewarded  diving with 5 or 6 Manta Rays , Jeannine I thought of you.....
This ended up being my last day of diving on this trip, as a matter fact I left behind my dear wetsuit, after 20 years, weight regulations with Air Asia  made it very expensive to keep it with me
When it was time to pay I realized that I lost my Debit Card but nobody took any money out of the account, so no much to complaint .
Tomorrow will be Bali and then Bangkok,  we are getting to end ( OH NOOOOO!!!!!!)
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