Bali Diving

After an exhausting and frankly painful first day of officially being in Bali, Indonesia, we finally got to get into the water and swim with some fishes; Scuba Diving. The day started off pretty normally for a tourist living in a hotel; wake up, eat breakfast, go out, then start the day's activity. BUt for the rest of the day, things were different, VERY different. First, before we start our journey to our dive site, we met up with the dive instructor that would be guiding us through four day of diving; Murfi Chen. His whole family were into the diving business, but his father also opened a restaurant in front of their dive shop. We hung out at Murfi's place for a while, getting ready everything, choosing our wetsuits, our BCD's (buoyancy control device) and also a Dive camera that we used to take all our photos.Then, we were ready.
The total time to the Tulamben wreck diving site was about three hours, although I hardly felt it, as I was sleeping (Hey! don't blame me, it was eight in the morning, and I slept at like twelve the previous night!). But the change in the atmosphere was HUGE. From tall buildings and tourists all happily shopping around to trees and mountains and sea view all around.We then walked for a bit and reached the place we were going to gear up and go in. Once all our dive equipment was set and working, we DESCENDED TO THE DEPTHS. It was a shore dive, so we slowly and gradually went down a slope. When we hit around ten meters, It was paradise. First, we saw a small patch of sand where some garden eels were lazily sticking out of the sand, we swam over them, casting a big shadow and scaring them back into the sand, only to be surrounded by around five batfish, curiously observing us as we make our way to the wreck. Not far off, we were able to spot a GINORMOUS tornado of jackfish. I've only ever seen a school of them, well, you know? You get new things every dive. Altogether, the two dives at Tulamben's USS liberty WWII cargo ship wreck was the most relaxing out of the eight of the whole trip.
The first dive In the morning, was concentrates at the front of the ship, there, we just gently drifted in and out of the wreck, seeing smaller things, like sweetlips and more batfish, and the coral growing around the wreck. But the second dive ater lunch, was much more interesting; we went to the cargo hold of the ship. There, we actually saw more things IN the wreck than out, although some weirdo kid went ahead and held onto a turtles shell- NOT a good idea, as dive-masters can still express their anger underwater. Overall, That Dive was one of the Most relaxing dive of all.

BALI

So yeah... Not been blogging for a long time, haven't talked to anybody from school in a long time, but hey! everybody's having fun...I guess... So yeah! over last week, I went to Bali for diving, I heard It's one of the best wreck diving sites in the world. What? did you think I would sit around at home, in front of a TV or my computer and do nothing productive for a solid two months? Ok, I admit, that would be nice, But I DID NOT regret going to bali.

The moment the plane touched down, I had a feeling that the trip was going to be good, that was before My head felt like it was going to explode, note to self, Do NOT lie down completely horizontally and sleep in a plane, gives you a massive headache. wasn't really interesting for the rest of the day, we had a massive lunch in this traditional looking indonesian restaurant, now, I expected the menu to be full of stuff like nasi lemak, and I did not expect Burgers on the Menu. After checking in to the room, and sleeping off the headache for an hour or two, we (meaning my dad and I, as My mom was in taiwan) went walking around the nearby stores, and eventually found a way to the beach. We then found our ay back to the room, hung out for like an hour in the room, then went out to eat a really tasty Japanese restaurant. That was basically day one.