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Day 13: Donderdag 19 maart 2015
Raja Ampat (Birie)

We woke up around 6.15 am, it was just light and the sea was calm. We slept well despite it's pretty hot without air conditioning. Just before 7.00 am we went for a breakfast. As with all meals it’s a buffet. Then we walked into our room on stilts and packed our stuff and went around 7.40 am at the jetty.

10 minutes later we left for a day trip. We first sailed the calm sea to Manta Sands. The dive was completely dominated by mantas and after a bit of swimming we got to see them. We were not the only divers because of another boat, there were a some 7 more. The divers must remain behind a kind of wall of coral. We stayed nearly three quarters of an hour to see the colossi of the ocean and I filmed and photographed what even was possible. After 63 minutes we were back up and went to the village of Arborak.

After a coffee break we went diving again. Here it is a kind of aquarium of fish like a ribbon eel, snapper, batfish, young butterfly fish and also a small seahorse (hippocampus). After 67 minutes were back at the surface and had lunch on the jetty.

Under the jetty was a whole school of fish.

After that we sailed to another village, Sawandarek. Again diving along a slope and a lot of fish. A giant perch in the deep, christmas wrasse, butterfly fish, school (pick handle) barracuda, ghost pipfish (looks just like a leaf), various corals and anemones. Again, we were 67 minutes under water and we started on the return journey.



The sea was a bit restless and a few times even a pole of the roof of the boat went loose. We were back around 3.30 pm.

After a short break we could back at work around 5 pm. Around that time there was just a tropical rainstorm pouring down. We dived on housereef number 2 on the other side of the island. Again, a variety of fish and other fauna such as a school of barbs, various nudibranch, sepia and I saw even two mandarin fish. Again after 67 minutes the dive was over and we sailed back to the hotel.

After refreshing ourselves we went for dinner. After looking in books (once again it became clear that there is still much to discover) back to the room and went to bed around 10.30 pm.

Initial publication: 27 april 2015
Last update: 05 mei 2015
© A. Heeroma

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