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26 October 2011
Dragon-spotting on Komodo Island As we’ve kept ourselves on New Zealand time in order to make early flights and dives, we woke up naturally at 5am … assisted by the sunrise. Breakfast was cheerfully served at 5:30am and we were at Loh Liang, the National Park base for Komodo Island at 6:00am. We had to […]
25 October 2011
Crew, stowaway, freeloader or extra passenger? We pushed off from Labuanbajo harbour around 7:30am on our lovely comfy boat with what I thought were 4 crew members. As it turned out, one of them was an Indonesian passenger … I think the crew had smuggled him on even though we had paid for the entire […]
24 October 2011
We walked around Labuanbajo, in the land of Komodo dragons, and enquired about dive trips. Day trips are common and overnight trips require the right numbers in the travelling party. Every shop had the same offerings at the same price … except Labuan Bajo Dive Club which was IDR50,000 cheaper. That little difference in price […]
24 October 2011
Above: Sunset as viewed from our accommodation. Today we did a full day’s outing from 0800 to 1700 with two dives. Like many people, we skipped the optional third dive but couldn’t return until everyone was done. First up was Manta Point (Karang Makassar) where we saw four manta rays and an eagle ray. It […]
23 October 2011
We hired a motorbike today with the intention of going out of town, including to a waterfall. We didn’t get very far … about 10 minutes out of town, the road disappeared into a bumpy dirt track. We pushed on for about a further 10 minutes and decided that the ride was far too uncomfortable […]
22 October 2011
We didn’t have much time this morning before our 1140 flight from Bali to Labuanbajo. We walked out of our hotel to grab some breakfast. Unfortunately at 8am, there was not much choice. Kuta is rather touristy and it was only pricey cafes or McDonalds and KFC … nothing cheap or local. Our Lion Wings […]
21 October 2011
Due to the 5 hour time difference we woke early and walked to the airport for some breakfast before our 3 hour flight to Bali. We essentially had had an afternoon and an overnight in Bali for all the things I had in mind. Lengthy immigration queues ate into this time. We headed out […]
22 July 2011
I woke early and saw the sunrise over the sea and my fruit-and-muesli. It was then a short ride to Balohan port to Banda Aceh where I tried to visit the Tsunami Museum which I missed last year. Sadly it was closed being Friday. That meant that I had a bit of time to kill […]
20 July 2011
I woke early in order to use shared transport to get to my next accommodation on the same island. The other guests are off back to the mainland. I had planned this move so that I could be on a nicer beach (Sumur Tiga) now that I’ve gotten all the diving (at Gapang beach) out […]
19 July 2011
Best dive! Today I did my third dive at Pulau Weh for this visit. This dive at Batee Tokong was the best! The clarity was good and because we dived around the pinnacle, one gets both the wall and blue-water experience. There were barracudas, turtles, octopuses, moray eels, scorpionfish amongs many other varieties. Some people […]