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I’ve been teaching some business classes at the Ayana resort and spa twice a week. I noticed one student taking camera phone pics of me during class, and next thing I knew I had a blurry photo shoot on my hands. Not a problem.
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My friends Billy and Xuan have arrived. Billy plans to get dive master certification. They weren’t too taken with Bali initally: the noise, the trash, the “you buy, you buy”, and planned to go on to Thailand. But as Xuan is a Chinese national, she can only stay for two weeks before a visa renewal, and landing in Singapore is even more difficult. So they are looking into staying here. But no doubt there will be trips around the region for them.
Meanwhile we went back to Amed. Billy did some diving, we did some night snorkeling, which at first was as scary as it sounds – visibility down to a beam of torch light, but you adjust quickly. There are completely different animals that come out at night, but two spots we tried turned out to be disappointing. I did see a huge camo box fish though. Mostly laid around in the hammock and did lots of snorkeling. I touched some soft coral I shouldn’t have and two fingers have been swollen up for a week, but they don’t really hurt and are getting better. There was a “discovery dive” offered, where you get a crash course, some time in the pool, then can go down to 10 meters. But at 600,000 rupiah it’s still a bit cost prohibitive. Maybe after Billy is a dive master we can sort something out. For now, I’m still happy snorkeling, but have learned to keep my hands to myself…
So I have plenty of vacation left. In fact will take a week in Oct, another in Nov, we already get a week after Christmas, then the month of Jan and I’m done. I’ve also gotten a flight down to Australia – Darwin for $70, and with a bonus month’s pay for completeing the contract, I’ll be down there a bit. I plan to take The Ghan down the middle of the country then fly back to the States via Melbourne or Sydney.
