Its time to leave our paradise after 9 month. Travel season starts again.
Afer servicing about 40 regulators and 50 BCDs we had to pack teh fins, masks, snorkels, wetsuits and booties. We packed over 130 bags with our belongings and transported it to the main land to store for the monsoon season. Tommorrow we are going to load the cargo boat and heading off for the main land as well.
Nepal, Tibet, India - we are coming.
Yesterday Nadine went to dive a site we took off our schedule in May when El Nino bleached the corals a lot. She did not expect a lot when jumping in at LIghthouse deep at 18 m. The vis of 15 - 20 m was already highly entertaining as you could see the bottom quite well. Lets see about the condition of the corals.
They did not recover as othe rreefs and were covered in algaes. When three black tip reef sharks came into view I was distracted. They were about 1.5 big, not to bad for the Perhentian Islands. We hoverd and watched them for a while when a forth shark came into the reef. Absolutely fascinating.
Minutes later we were joined by a Hawksbill turtle and two more sharks. All in all a very good dive!
Season ends in a couple of weeks already. In less than three weeks we will be in Nepal with not many possibilities to share our thoughts and views as we are trekking onto the Mera Peak, a 6474 m high mountain in the Himalaya.
We are looking forward to our 3 month break off the island and we will have lots to tell and show later on. We will go for a 8 week Jeep tour from Kathmandu to Lhasa. We will the holly grounds of Tibet which the Dalai Lama is not allowed to. We will carry his spirit and scarf into Lhasa.
After another week of Nepal we will head several thousand miles through India to see just a little bit of this big country.