114 Days

This morning I woke up feeling like death with having come home at the crack of dawn.  I made my way onto the patio where I bumped into Bow who invited me out for a dive with him and Adam. I got my things ready and loaded them onto the truck. Sam, Adam, Bow and Sara made our way to the beach for our dive. We were really excited because it’s not very often that we get to have a dive not having any students or guests where we can go crazy and do our own thing. We made our decent to the stern of the Hirokawa Maru at a depth of 58m with the vessel lying on its Portside. Upon reaching our depth Adam pointed out the 4 artillery pieces mounted on the ship which I had never noticed before. We made our way to the rudder and up the starboard side of the wreck were we entered a hole from where a torpedo had helped this huge vessel to the bottom of the sea! On entering Adam turned on his torch which was like day underwater, I didn’t feel bad forgetting my torch back at the shop anymore ;) we did quite a bit of exploring going in and out of different passages. Adam found 8 bullets that must have been from a box of ammunition.

On our way back to the shop we stopped and purchased some food from the side of the road which was awesome. It’s the only kind of fast food you get here on the Island J we got back to the shop and rinsed the salt water off our gear when Bow shot home to get Barbra’s dog so we could give him a wash – man it made me miss Rock Star LOTS!!! Haha this dog doesn’t like water just like my girl :P

I then had the pleasure of meeting the guy who discovered the USS Aaron Ward who will be sleeping in my room for the next two weeks. He is here for the next month or so with a vessel from New Zealand. His job is to discover lost wrecks from WWII which is quite exciting! Hopefully I can tag along one day (or a week) but we’ll see how it goes. And hopefully we find something J

Sandfly Passage

Sandfly Passage

Sandfly Passage

Sandfly Passage

Sandfly Passage The size of this rock wall is huge! (at the bottom of the wall in the centre, just to the left is a dug out canoe -if you can even see it :p ) 

Erick + me

a local shoving coconut in my face

Jess + me