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Day 3: Maandag 9 maart 2015
Banyuwedang

Just past 6 am we were awake. Past night there was some heavy rainfall. It was already light, but the mountains, which we can see from our room, were still covered in clouds. But the view from the room is fantastic. Around 7 am we had an American breakfast which filled the stomach well. After breakfast we went to the Dive Center for diving. We were the only 2 divers today, so we good do out own pace. After filling out the necessary paperwork, we went by boat to an island in a 20-minute boat ride. The sea was relatively calm. We went to the South side of the island because the wind came from the North and therefor there was less visibility on the other side. The first dive site was at 'underwater cave' which is actually a wall of beautiful coral. There is a variety of coral, sponges and saw wolf crab, yellow pipefish and Martin also saw a white tip shark swim by, but unfortunately I didn’t see it. At the end there was a small cave. After about 70 minutes we were back up and picked up by the boat. After a fruit snack we went for the second dive, following the wall from 'Blue corner' with once again beautiful coral, frogfish, St. Jacobs scallops, bat fish, Moonish idol and young silver leaf fish (and more of course!). The wall has various inlets. After more than 80 minutes we were back above water.

Then by boat and we returned around 2 pm at the dive centre. After some relaxing we went diving again around 3.45 pm on the house reef. The water was very dusty so that the visibility was limited from 1 meter above the sand to about 7 meters above the coral. We saw among other things a few warts slugs, a large slug, young spadefish and a lot of hard coral. After more than 80 minutes we were back at the dock.

After a shower we relaxed and around 8 pm we went for dinner. We had already chosen the menu during breakfast. we had salad, squid rings (calimari) and fruit for dessert. Next we went back to the bungalow where we did some talking and watching photos and movies we made during diving. We went to bed just before 11 pm.

Initial publication: 10 maart 2015
Last update: 27 maart 2015
© A. Heeroma

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