 5.th.
Of J anuary
Gapang Beach Pulau Weh
The long awaited but also feared
first dive in tropical waters (sharks
there you
know!!) is over. It was
a success.
Never knew it would be so
much easier to dive in a wetsuit compared to
a dry
suit, I only
wish that the bottle (aluminum) would stop pulling me up.
;-D.
The water was nice and warm 28 degrees.
We made an easy first dive…straight out from the
beach, no deeper than 10.3
meters, but we saw a lot!
Bluespotted stingray
both under a rock and in free swim, twinspotted
lionfish,
boxfish, snowflake
Murray, snakeel, Gardeneels (spaghetti) and a lot more.
Tomorrow we have two boat dives planned;Rubiah Seagarden and a
driftdive. Should
be really nice.
We are running up a bill
here on the beach and get a cash advance from the
diveschool ( no banks or
Atms here) the last day and then go around paying the
restaurants and the hotel.
Even
monkeys peel their banana Hennie
Today we had power
problems here and had to eat dinner in candle light…..nice
and romantic he? Right!
The food was good..I had simple food French fries and chocolate pancake
and
Hennie went for the chicken curry.
The food came ,mine fries and Hennies rice and then something Hennie
thought was
a sausage , there are so
many Norwegians here so it has to be pølse he
said and
happily ate it. Well even monkeys peel their banana and I and the rest of the
locals laughed our socks
of when Hennie happily chewed banana peel. I
wonder…does it taste good Hennie?
There is not much to do here on the island so we go to bed early and is
fresh
and awake
for the 10.00 o’clock dive tomorrow
6.th.of January
oh no looks like Hennie
can't dive because of cold and I am not sure that I dare go by myself.We
are diving at Rubiah
Seagarden as no 1 dive today. Hennie can't clear his ears and
I go diving with one of the
divemasters. There are some currents but way better visibility today. I see a lot.... honeycomb
moray,bluespotted stingray,
black scorpionfish,
gardeneels,bluespotted pufferfish,Oriental sweetlips,lionfish,clown
triggerfish and a big mushroom.
Hennie saw snorkling
two big Giant murenes
and a lot of beautifull
pufferfishes
a really nice dive! I am going for the next one too.
No two dive was suppossed to be a drift dive but they changed it to batee tokong a place
where there are a chance to see sharks and a whole lot of other bigger
fish.
Depth will be approx. 24 meeters .
There were quite a current but also some sheltered places A very nice
diveplace.
I saw;
Whiteeyed
moray,eel,tuna,young giant morays,diagonal striped sweetlips,moorish
Idols,Orange anthies,titan triggerfish,lionfish,scorpionfish,circular
spadefish,redtoothed triggerfish,sleek unicornfish,div.boxershrimps and
a octopus along with a dusin other fishes,but no sharks....looked for it but no....
Great dive,pitty Hennie couldn't dive.
(ha he had to pee while he was snorkling since he drinks a
lot of water to hopefully clear his blockages sooner and while holding
on to a rock at the shore hanging
in the water he saw an octopus! ha the octopus changed to the same
color as hennies pee completely yellow and then
dissapeared under the rocks (hmmm apearentlly he didnt like beeing peed
upon..... )
7.january
Still diving is off the table for Hennie...can't clear so I have to
dive alone...
Todays two dives are:
Arus Palah and Sulako Drift
Arus Paleh:
A great divisite with a lot of life.
One of the divemasters David was my buddy,wich was lucky for me since I
then was shown a lot of different things.
We didn't go deeper than 19,8 meters but it was more than enough ...
I saw
Ribboneels,Giant
Moray,Undulated Morays,Different
scorpionsfishes,Spotfinlinefish,Jawfish,Blanquille,Batfish,Starpuffer,Blockblotched
porcupinefish,Black Snappers,Titan Triggerfish,Yellowmargin
Triggerfish,Yellow Boxfish,Juvenile Emperor Angelfish,Yellowback
Fusiliers,Oriental Sweetlips,Bluespotted stingraysand Chromadorius
Elisabethina and more.
Sorry you had to miss it Hennie
Sulakos Drift.
My first ever driftdive!
It was a strange feeling
beeing the ones moving (gliding)instead of the fish. :-D
Managed to see a little bit though like
Bluespotted
Stingrays,Scorpionfishes, Lionfish,and a nice pyjamas nudibranch.
To see some of it one had to swim back against a really hard current
and I used a lot of air so after 37 min I had 50 bar left and waited so
that we could go to a more calmer place to do the safety stop
,hanging on to a rock I had waited for aprrox a minute when I suddenly realised it was
really hard to breathe so I checked my manometer and it
showed almost empty
(!)and I had to show the signal for Out of air to one of he divemasters
and get her octpus and then make an ascent without a safetystop since
that was impossible in that situation due to the strong current.
Well everything went ok and I am looking forward to dive
again tomorrow!
8.January.
The canyon
The morning first dive went to The
Canyon were we would more than likely see Napoleon Wrasse.
We went down to 23.5 meters and
went in to the canyon and sure enough there he was just
under us : a
huge (1.5meters) Napoleon
Wrasse, greenish in color,he was swimming slowly just
above the bottom. What a sight. We also saw a big Unicorn Surgeonfih and
different triggerfishes.
Hennie did some snorkling
on the surface here and spotted
a turtle!! Lucky you Hennie!
This day last dive was a
beach dive to go search for a seahorse!
It was a dive that took us down to 17,6 meters ,not the best visibility
due to the tide but good enough.
I saw Peacock Mantis
shrimp,Titan Triggerfish,Yellowmargin Triggerfish,Blackspotted
Puffer,Whitespotted Puffer,a small goatfish being cleaned by a wrasse,a
baby Longfin Bannerfish,Emperor Angelfish,Godefroy's Seacucomber
and yes I manage to find
and photograph the seahorse (!!!!) :-D
Great dive.
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