Monday March 16th was the day of leaving Labuan Bajo to go for more diving. A 6 days liveaboard with Current Junkies on the boat Busy Girl. All good fun! But, there is but here, the night before I am sick. Freezing and poring with sweat parts of the night, but I still feel ok in the morning, so I never think about not going. But I am a bit worry about how it will be to dive later in the day, and for the days to come.
I am meeting up with Nick and the rest of the group, wich is Nathalia and Ben, a newlywed couple on their honymoon. That is the group, the 3 of us and Nick as our guide, and there are off course the great crew on the boat Busy Girl that make sure we get where shall, feed us, and make sure that we have a pleasant fun tour. Ben reconice me from somewhere, and I find out that he had been diving with me 2 years ago in El Nido at the Submariner 2 years ago. Small world!
Busy Girl is a small boat, but beautyful and well kept. It was supposed to be a 4th diver on the trip, but he had gotten sick, and I get my own cabin on the boat. We leave port around 13.45, going for the national park where we will do one dive on this first day. Nick gives us the breifing about the boat and how the dives will be going on. The dives will goes as usual expect how we enter the water, that will be done "negativly", which is not anything that we are used to do. Short explonation for the non divers, normally you jump into the water positiv, that is with air in you bcd (west), and you have time to float on the surface and adjust your mask etc before you dive down slowly empying your bcd. Entering negativ, you do not have air in you bcd, and you jump into water pressing one of the exhoust walves to press out any remaining air and dive straight down without stopping on the surface. The reason for this is to get as fast as possible down without being dragged out of position of any current on the surface. Not difficult, or maybe a little if you hold on to a camera when you jump in, not enough hands :-) All in all it works out fine during all the dives, better after some practice.
I freeze during the hole dive this first day, even if the temperature is the same as it have been all the other dives I have done the last days. So I am for sure not 100%, and after some hot soup, I go to bed and have a pretty bad night again. Not freezing, but sweating an ocean. But feels ok, and I belive it is the matress that have waterproof covering and that it is hot in the cabin. The same happen on night 2.
On day 2 and 3 am I diving 3 dives, the dives goes pretty fine, cold the last 20-30 minuttes of the dives, and I am VERY tired in the night. On day 3 are the others doing a night dive as well, I pass on that one. Relaxing on the boat, falling almost to sleep in the cabin. By the time it is dinner, I can not get myself out of bed to go and have dinner. I need to get my waterbottle, and I am close to pass out and the sweat just start instantly poring, get myself back to bed and that feel a lot better. Stays in bed for the next 12-14 hours, have it bad in the morning on day 4, diving is not even an option. Had also decided to take a break before the morning hit me, and I end up not diving at all this day, but manage to eat a little to every meal, a bit more each time and drink some coke. I am a lot lot better in the afternoon, but are still deciding to not do the first dive on day 5, and I also do the same with the second dive. Then finally, I am good for the water again on the last one this day, which becomes a crazy fun one pushed through the fastest current I have ever been in on purpose, the shootgun at Cauldron. Day 6 is the last day, and we only have the morning dive, which I also do. Feeling good now. I am not sure what have been wrong with me, fever and maybe some stommach bug, even if the stommach haven't been all bad, but have whatever the reason not been good. That was the sickness fighting, lost 5 dives because of it, nothing to do with it. And as bad as it was, it was a good place to be sick on since I wasn't alone.
The dives and the dive sites was mostly things I have done before, but that doesn't matter, since the dive here is so good, and now we was doing just the best divesites, also some that are a bit complicated. Only two of them had strong current, the Arch and the Cauldron. Fishlife is splendid, and we saw tiny hard to see scrimps, pygme seahorses, big tunas, groupers, sharks, nudibrances, turtles, seasnakes and lots and lots of more, corrals, hard ones and soft ones in lots of colors, it can not bee descibed or even put onto a picture, it must be seen. From the surface did we see dolphines playing in front of the boat, and we teased the Komodo dragons from the speed boat and letting them chase us, we sat back watched the sunset when 1000's of flying foxes took off for the night. All this set in a beautiful landscape of green islands spread around in the park together with some very nice people on the boat, fellow guest and the crew on the boat.
So I had a good week, even with some sick days on the boat.
Last stop in Indonesia is Kuta in Bali. Eden Hotel,, as I also stayed in 2 years ago, pretty ok with a ok pool. I chill out, buy new shorts since the laundry in Labuan Bajo have ruined my old favorittes. Found out to late to complaine.
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