Sweating in Moorea
For the first time in my life I am in the Southern Hemisphere - 17 degrees South to be precise.
The flight from LAX to Tahiti was uneventful. The highlights were seeing the pilot's view of takeoff and landing, the plane had a camera mounted on the nose that relayed video to the monitor in the back of the seat in front of you!
We had a couple of days on Tahiti Nui (the main island) before taking the ferry to Moorea. This was on November 1st which happens to be All Saint's Day, a public holiday. As a result most of the ferries were not running and we had to wait around for hours. Bit of a pain in the arse.
On Moorea we have just completed three days of diving (two dives a day) with Moorea Fun Dive. Words cannot describe how amazing these dives were! Photos and video might come close (I took about 200). I'll be uploading these next week hopefully.
Dive summary:
- 26C water
- Astonishingly good visibility, 40m maybe, blue blue waters
- Coral everywhere - not all that colourful but very nice
- Fish, fish and more fish! Lots of colours
- Sharks. Many. Mostly black tip, some lemon shark and others.
- Green turtles, two. Very close and impressive to see.
- Moray eels. Ugly things
- Feeding frenzies when the dive guide took a tuna head along with him.
- Beautiful "rose garden" coral dive at 46m
We've been staying in a bungalow at Mark's Place Paradise while on Moorea. Ours is made of stone with glass bottles punctuating the walls. We have a number of resident geckos. Very cool.
That's all for now. It is hot and sweaty in this small computer room and is Emily's turn to check her email. Next entry will probably be this weekend, from New Zealand.
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Moorea? Pah! Highlights of this weekend's diving in Loch Fyne, teaching the ocean diver course:
* Nudbranch. Brightly coloured, juvenille, further identification impossible due to trainee landing on it.
* Velvet Swimming Crab. Green. Fast, thanks to impending doom of trainee's left knee. Made strange two-pronged gesture as it retreated
* Wreck of the Knotty Ash. Resplendent under a rich coat of silt, recently joined by the world's fourth vertical wreck, possibly caused by the fireworks display generously funded by trip participants the previous night. Further description impossible due to cloud of silt caused by excitable trainee.
We were staying in a Youth hostel in Inverary while in Loch Fyne. Ours is made of stiffened cardboard with glass windows punctuating the walls. We had a number of snoring students, and several whiskys. Very cool.
:)
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