Makassar Dive Trip

661 days ago
	I had a wonderful weekend diving last week… but now I guess I am in the poor house for a while. Please next month, arrive with haste! The diving was really a fun weekend though. I went out with Jenny and Jane, two other English teachers as well as a couple of Dutch physiotherapists. Our first dive was a really deep one which landed us in a non-descript ocean floor area at 43m! It was low visibility, chilly water, and there was not a single fish. The most interesting thing we saw was a siphonophore that closely resembled a shoelace. After returning from that one we were all a bit happy to come out alive seeing as the depth was a bit ridiculous. The next dive was a bit nicer, and extremely shallow. We generally hovered around 5-7 m looking at a coral reef that was in fairly bad condition. There were parts that had avoided the insane destructive powers of the bomb fishermen, and in these sections I got a peek at a nice moray eel as well as many anenome fishes. One was the smallest bugger I have ever seen! The last dive was a night dive, and once again a bit disappointing. We missed the coral reef by maybe 50m and had to swim against the current to find it. All but the divemaster and I quit and drifted back to the boat. Once on the coral, it was really cool to see all the fish just chilling out sleeping on the bottom of the ocean. They looked really peaceful and I was able to get really close to a very large pufferfish. Anyways, now just waiting to chill out this weekend doing as little as possible with the hopes of getting paid next week!