Sunday, November 16, 2008

November 16: Banda Sea – Day 6

Today when we woke up we were located just off the west coast of Ambon next to a small group of islands. Our last dive of the trip was going to be around Lain Island, whisc is one of the small islands, on a site called Pulau Tiga. There was a pretty strong current for most of the dive so I didn't take nearly as many pictures as some of the other dives. 

We saw a few large moray eels and some nudibranchs, but we were moving by so fast it was hard to see a lot of the little stuff. Charlotte found a turtle and swam around with it for a little while and then towards the end of the dive she found some small lobsters or large shrimp under a rock.

When we were done with the dive and back onboard the boat we had our second breakfast and then lounged around for a while. Since we aren't supposed to dive within 24 hours of a plane flight we cruised back to the city of Ambon and some people went into the city to run some errands and stuff. The rest of the day was spent packing all our dive gear and clothes. For dinner they had a barbecue out on the deck, which was nice.

Since today was Brent's birthday (yes, I remembered to wish him a happy birthday this morning) they made a birthday cake for him and the whole crew came out and sang and danced the night away, it was a riot!

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