Day 74-76 / Tag 74-76 May 25-27 Dive trip to Ni'ihau

Coming from the airport we pick up Julia and drive to the only WalMart on Kau'ai, we need some camping utensils. Beach mats, a cooler, mosquito repellent, beer and juices, snacks etc. I buy a telephone sim card and activate it only 3 days later (All posts starting from Raja Ampat part 2 on we uploaded through that sim card...).

Drive to a shore and have a beer, then back to the airport where we pick up Dan, another friend of Julia and Brad, he is going to dive with us tomorrow. Later we drive to the Dive shop for check-in and payment, where we meet Jeff, a friend of the three, he invites us for dinner, because it's his birthday.

at the dive shop

Day 73-74 / Tag 73-74, May 24-25, From Indonesia to Hawaii

24.5., 1:45pm Speedboat from Gili Air to Bali
Transfer to Denpasar Airport, Bali, had a beer and Pizza
3 hours flight to Kuala Lumpur
5 hours stopover at KL, this feels very familiar already
7 hours flight KL to Tokyo, Boeing 787
3 hours stopover at Narita Airport, got some cigarettes and a powerplug adaptor for Japan and America

Kabuki on display at Narita Airport, Tokyo

Day 71-73 /Tag 71-73 May 22-24 Gili Air

Pickup from Kuta Station Hotel works like a breeze, 8:30, to the jetty of Gili Getaway, Speedboat to Gili Air with a short stopover at Gili Trawangan.

Goodbye Bali

Speedboat Bali to Gili Air. Cruise time 2,5 hours

There is no jetty on Gili Air, Speedboats simply drive onto the beach. Taking it easy there, I have a small Bintang at the bar, well, a bamboo shack with a fridge,

Day 70 / Tag 70 Sun. May 21 Traveling Sorong, Papua Barat to Bali

More group fotos

 I get my wetsuit from the Engine room, bone dry

More group fotos

Day 66-69 / Tag 66-69 May 17-20 Raja Ampat Part 2

Dive eat sleep repeat. Once in the groove, you can't imagine anything else.
minutes melt into hours, hours melt into days, quite often I don't have any idea, which date it is, let alone which weekday.

Diving is fun

Day 63-65 / Tag 63-65 May 14-16 Raja Ampat Part 1

This post covers a long timespan, three days of a full week, with a lot of diving on a confined space in a remote area. It can be only rough notes and many details will be missing. It is hard to travel and report at the same time, when you dive four times a day, surfacing after each and every dive with a smile on your face, with so much to see and so much to explore

Embarkation somewhere in the port of Sorong.
People in Papua Barat can look somehow different sometimes...

Day 62 / Tag 62 May 13, Traveling Day: Lembeh, Sulawesi to Sorong, Papua Barat

Flight goes at 7am from Manado. On Lembeh that means get up at 4am. Short Boatride to Sulawesi and the usual minivan madness to Airport Manado before the sun even goes up.

But wait, I forgot a nice foto from last nightdive:

Everybody else flies Garuda, I have a Wing ticket.
The difference? Garuda flies