Drifting through Boxing Day

26th December

Santa brought Robin a new underwater camera, so we just had to try it out, and arranged a dive with the local dive shop. The boat took us to one of the local drift dives. The area is famous for coral walls, that literally drop down a hundred metres or more. This one wasn’t far off the coast, and our dive guide let us pick a depth we were happy at to drift along and look at the scenery. After the Great Barrier Reef, where there was virtually no current, the relatively fast current here was very different. There was lots to see from tiny newdibranch to a huge turtle. We almost landed on top of a smaller turtle on our descent. But from a photographer’s viewpoint it was a challenging dive – Robin described it as taking pictures from a moving train. But while the composition can be improved, the camera itself was proclaimed a million times better than his old one. Me – I just swam along and looked at the fish.

Tim and KM flew in that evening to join us. We are all going to stay on Bunaken Island tomorrow for more diving until the New Year.