After a noisy night spent motoring through the island passage the boat docked among the jungle covered island of Misool. Similar in appearance to Palau the islands rise up steeply out of the turquoise sea and are quite beautiful.
We started the day at the crack of dawn and headed off in the dive tenders to commence our check out dive
.
There was a bit of a current as we all back rolled into the water and descended to the reef wall. Making our way along the wall we admired the colourful hard and soft corals. The current kept changing continuously and we went backwards and forwards while the dive guides kept a lookout for Pygmy Seahorses.
We didn't see any this time which didn't bother me since I had left the camera on the boat, but there was lots to look at and the dive ended on top of the reef where we searched all the nooks and crannies.
After the dive it was back to the boat for breakfast and a short interval then on to the next dive site. With camera in hand I descended the wall and followed the guide who found several Seahorses this time. They are so tiny, barely a centimetre long that although you could see them it was hard to make out their features with the naked eye. I couldn't really see them properly until I looked at my photos later. It was a lovely dive and the corals were spectacular and very vibrant and healthy
. We were the only boat on the site so we only had our own divers to contend with.
We've seen other boats in the distance but no other divers, so far, have been on the sites.
There were other interesting things like Mantis shrimp and Moorish Idols and we finished the dive with a school of giant Bumphead Parrotfish feeding on the hard coral in front of us.
Lunch was next and then a bit of a rest until the next dive. This was a nice easy dive along a reef wall and around a couple of gorgeous bommies. There were a few Pelagics swimming past including Spanish Mackeral, Barracuda and a few Giant Trevally. The coral was excellent again and there was a lovely bommie covered in coral and sea squirts with a Maori wrasse visiting a cleaning station on the side of it.
On the top of the reef we saw Mantis shrimp, a massive black and white Lion fish and an Octopus hunting among the rocks.
The diving here reminds me of Kavieng as the reef is so vibrant and colourful. Not surprising since it is so near to New Guinea.
We've decided to give the night dive a miss since all of the dives today were an hour long and we need to ease into it.
I think I will go up on the sun deck and try and have a bit of a snooze since I got very little sleep last night with all the boat noise going on.
First day of diving at Misool
Sunday, April 10, 2016
Sorong, Papua Barat, Indonesia
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