Sharpion's Dream

Was quite determined to get things right today. Sarah din follow me on the dive so i could really concentrate on my diving. Tried to being my cam down but it was a bit foggy so i didn't in case it was leaking. To sum up the 3 dives, it was really good. Had no problems and felt good, learnt a lot of things and best of all, managed to swim in a school of baracuda! Did not have any headaches as i kept very hydrated and kept breathing. Overall the diving felt really good. Came back, was not tired or feeling bad. Draft entry.

Ok the day of intensive diving. Din really get much sleep the night before as mentioned earlier. 1st dive started out a bit shaky with me and Sarah both having problems equalizing our ears. Eventually was able to go down but was hurting. The dive masters were taking good care of us esp. Sarah so it was good. We had our own dedicated divemaster with us. 2nd dive had relatively less problems going down but it was still a bit wierd. I kept getting headaches coming up coz of lack of water and breath holding la etc. Saw a huge sleeping turtle which was nice. Always got up having a bad headache and having to sleep it off. On the 3rd dive, i was not actually feeling good with headache etc. but still decided to go down to settle things. Was quite bad, felt bad underwater and when i got up headache was really splitting. Slept all the way back to shore...got back on land and went to sleep. Woke up for dinner feeling a bit better...spent the night playing pool etc. This is just a quick update, wi...

The plane ride there was in a very very small plane (A319). There was no in flight entertainment worth mentioning. Good point was that the plane was quite empty so we managed to change seats to this really nice place where i could stretch my legs and recline all the way. Upon reaching Manado, we passed immigration quite quickly. Was suprised and happy to see that the resort had sent people to standy for us even at the baggage collection area. The airport is really small with only 1 baggage carousel. After that, we din even have to push our own trolley and were immediately escorted to our waiting vehicles. There were 2 vehicles but we just immediately went onboard the nearest van. This was a mistake as the aircon was really hot and we were stuck in terrible traffic for around 45mins. The traffic conditions are similar to phillippines or thailand...very congested and disorder. Interestingly they had traffic lights with counters (for green also). Another interesting thing is that their ca...