Still Traveling...

We moved on to Tulemban, a smaller village up the east coast of Bali, totally devoted 100% to diving. We stayed at a nice little dive shop with a great cafe. The room was our cheapest to date, a whopping $8. The next morning we dove the USS Liberty, a ship that was intentionally run aground after being torpedoed by the Japanese during WWII. When a volcano erupted in the 60's in threw the ship into the water and broke it in half. Alright enough history. So we dove the wreck, which was simply amazing. It was in Adam's Top 2 dives ever and it was Heathers deepest (90 feet) and one of her favorite dives to date. There was literally hundreds of thousands of fish and coral covering every inch of the wreck. We even managed to find pygmy seahorses which are only about a 1/4 inch big and apparently very rare.

After leaving Tulemban we headed south to Sanur for 2 nights. We found a cute little homestay that was near the harbor. Our first night was a full moon and the tide was unusually low. The water dropped at least 10 feet leaving no where to swim. We still managed to work on our tan though and Heather is officially now brown. No longer ghost white! (AMAZINGLY, SHE CAN TAN!)

We took an island hopper boat over to Nusa Lembongan, a small island off of the coast of Bali. It is a lot like the Gili Islands, as there are no motor vehicles and the pace of life is slower here than on Bali, which is what we really like. The natives of the island make their living harvesting sea weed which they then sell to be used in ice cream as an emulsifier. Everywhere we look people have seaweed spread out on tarps drying. It is very cool. Our room here is a cute little dive hotel run by a fantastic staff. One of the guys speaks very good English and likes to joke with us a lot. He says his name is Jack but somehow we highly doubt it. Every time Adam calls him Jack, "Jack" erupts in laughter. We plan on doing some more diving next week in hopes of seeing the elusive Mola Mola. They can grow up to 14 feet tall and only come to these waters once a year. Very big fishies.

We've really found our groove of traveling abroad and think that next time we'll be able to do it even cheaper... and maybe longer too. We can't believe how fast time has flown by! We've already been here more than a month and the thought of coming back to reality is beginning to set in... shucks! Although, we are beginning to miss everyone back home just a bit, we really miss Belly Dog! :)

12 days to go...