Day 138- it’s my birthday!

So today is my birthday. This is of course a special day in my calendar. Not only am I turning 25 (the quarter century mark), I am also now in my mid 20s instead of early 20s. This is also my first birthday away from home. I suspected that this would be a challenging day so I made sure that I organised something really fun. Today I will be diving off of the site of Komodo. I will be completing three dives off the north of Komodo. I am beyond excited.

First dive of the day was Castle Rock. This was a crazy site. The currant was absolutely nuts. It was all around this one main pinnacle. This was a nice dive where we saw some beautiful sharks however the constant kicking against the currant was just exhausting.

The second dive was Crystal Rock. Again the currant here was madness. We basically had to hold onto a rock about 20m underwater to watch the marine life playing in the currant. Again we were visited by some huge sharks.

The last dive of the day was this place called cauldron. This was my absolute favourite dive of the day. The current was not nearly so strong. It was strong enough to gently drift without any work but not so strong that you couldn’t just stop and look at something closer. It was pretty awesome. Here we saw an octopus, another shark (it was the day of the sharks) and a tonne of really beautiful marine life.

In the evening some awesome people and I headed to a newly opened bar. They served us a local dinner and I even got a birthday cake with some free drinks whilst I was sung happy birthday in Indonesian. It was a truly awesome day!

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