No posts in a while because
(1) we had yet another travel day on Saturday flying from Yogyakarta to Jakarta and on to Manado, North Sulawesi. (That made 5 flying days out of 6.)
(B) since then Jaeson and I spent two days diving three dives a day around Bunaken Island.
There was a 30 minute panic on arrival into Manado as no one from the dive resort was there holding up a sign with our names.
The confirmation didn't have the actual name of the hotel on it just the dive company.
And the phone numbers were not going through.
It was a well researched group so it isn't that we were worried we had been scammed but we just didn't know how to get to them.
Finally found a cellphone number and made contact.
Apologies were made. A driver arrived. And all worked out in the end.
And the diving has been spectacular. My cellphone doesn't work under water so Jaeson has all/ any photos...
But the numbers and diversity of sea life is staggering. The corals are stunning. And the water is even warmer than in Anguilla.
We have seen crocodile fish, frog fish, scorpion fish, black and blue ribbon eels, blue spotted rays, one shy reef shark, tons and tons of angels and triggers and long-nosed butterfly fish, a school of black snapper, a couple of good sized Napoleon wrasse, teeny tiny shrimp, crazy colorful nudibranchs, sweet lips and the truly jaw dropping probably 6 inch long peacock mantis shrimp. And we haven't even done a night dive yet.
I leave you with this pilfered internet image of a mantis shrimp. Crazy.
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