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July 13th 2009

Published: July 15th 2009

Or how we got stuck in east Nusa Tenggara. As I’m writing this we’re sitting in the departure lounge of the airport of Denpasar, Bali. We’re not having a nice coffee, we’re not having any food. We’re not even having a plate of nasi goreng. What we are having is lukewarm water and cookies. The reason for this is that we had to leave our last few rupiah at the airport in Bima, Sumbawa for... Read Full Entry

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Some beach near Komodo

Everyone settling down for lunch

First two Komodo Dragons we saw, right outside the ranger station

Sleepy Dragon

Yet another Dragon. We were lucky to see them this active

Both of the dragons moving on

Janine and the buffalo that has probably since expired

Just to prove we actually saw them and I didn't just download the pics off the net

Dragon lurking in the grass

The rugged beauty of Rinca Island, Komodo NP

Little monkey on Rinca

The harbor at Rinca

Our last snorkelsite. We all wanted to stay here and build a camp

Chilling out with the whole group on the bow on the way to Labuan Bajo. I remarked how funny it was that we were worried about the size of the boat at first but now were all crammed into this tiny space.

Chilling out on the slightly more luxurious diveboat on the way back to Komodo the next day.

Getting ready to put on my gear.

Everything ok.. let's go

Incoming..

Going down...

The streets of Labuan Bajo are something else

Sunset from our hotel in Labuan Bajo

21st July 2009

joncasssouthkorea
Jon Wick

Yahtzee
Some stellar underwater photos! Keep it up!

8th August 2009

Denise
non-member comment

Love diving!
I did my open water I [NAUI] only 2 years ago and can so relate to everything you have been saying! I have also lucky enough so far to dive with 'open minded' DM's so haven't exactly done things by the book. I still only have my OWI but have dived wrecks, gone down to 41m, done some awesome shark diving on Aliwal Shoal etc... Really need to get a proper qualification :-) ENJOY

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