Night diving
Trip Start
Mar 17, 2007
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Trip End
Ongoing
Tulamben,
Indonesia
Sunday, May 11, 2008
The volcano does not have a hat of clouds today: the weather is perfect!
We sail to a shore, 30 minutes away, so we will do our surface interval there. It turns out to be a shore dive.
This time, a porcelain crab is posing for us and Dr T gets the perfect picture. We also found a colorful sea urchin but oh so poisonous. They have mini scorpion fish here: no they are NOT babies, just a smaller version. And red stone fish. Surface interval in a resort.
Second dive is only a couple of hundred meters away. A lot of macro life and beautiful corals.
After that a looooong service interval till the night dive. We have lunch and buy new sloefkes for Hubby.
Then the time has come: night dive. Armed with torches, we walk to the sea. Soryn is joining us again. It is said as usual: night dives are great here: all different stuff comes out after dark. Well, surprise me. They don't. You go down at dusk and after 10 minutes it is complete dark. But I mean complete! The torches are used to AND find your way AND nor bump into something AND to find stuff.
Imagine it like this: you walk in a dark and densely overgrown forest. You cannot see anything but one beam coming out of you torch. But you know they are plants and animals everywhere: left, right, front, back, beneath and above. Not JUST plants and animals. Nononono, they can be dangerous, they can sting you, burn you, poison you and in extremis kill you. Where do you shine your light? To the left? (what about the right?) Above you? (what about beneath you?). In front of you (what about behind you?) And I am supposed to have FUN. It would be worth it IF a dive master could show me something different from what you see during the day. But they never could! On top of that: they shine their f.... torch in my eyes all the time! They flash that thing to me to attract my attention. Don't do that! Flashing light is a migraine attack to me.
Only 2 positive things: the wreck looks spooky in the dark. And Hubby is very sweet to me. I signed: 'stay close' and the darling thinks that I am scared. Yes, scared to be lost! I lose my way during daylight in a card board box! So, yes, maybe I am glad I am held all the time. And as glad when the 50 minutes are over. I will do one more night dive in my life. But only because the specific night dive is in the top 100 of our list. One more.
The last time to our resto. Bye to our cat. Is she not pretty ugly?
We pay the hotel: the total bill for 6 nights (including 7 dives, breakfast, mini bar, day trip with private driver, pick-up from Kuta) 600 Euro. We are very happy with this price!
Tomorrow, we are picked up by our destination hotel: Mimpi in Menjangan: the North West of Bali.
