Sunday, April 24, 2011

Bunaken Island

Early morning, breakfast at our bungalow's restaurant, nice view to the water. Out to scuba dive!
We booked with Cuz-Cuz which was close to our hotel and ready to leave at 8am. The price to dive including equipment is €25 per dive. As an advice, is better to carry some euros with you cos US dollars are badly rated and paying in local currency means withdrawing an awful amount of bills. I can't recommend our scuba team, although our "dive master" was exceptional with spotting all types of things. To explain a little more, on our first dive, our guide disappeared as we turned a corner with strong current leaving Paula & I on our own for some minutes. My gauge happened to never marked lower than 60 bar on the second dive, a little scary discovering it by having trouble to inhale, thankfully we were already swimming around 5m depth. So choose well who you dive with and enjoy. 

The diving spots are awesome! Great coral walls full of life, we saw lots of reef sharks on the first dive and huge turtles on the second among so much more!