project :: r!ch fArmers ii :: wHen aLL of Us jUmped in!!

we all attended the “graduation”…
at beautiful tulamben…
yeah…simon…mona and i…
divers of all levels..come together…

while “xiao bai” is still snoozing…we have already travelled 2 hours on the van to get here..

getting all suited up for our first day..

though i will love to help…
but ……….i can’t…

booties…1 of the hardest thing to dry…
funky smell..*puke*…

“this is all i am carrying…” ~ nate..

project “graduation” briefing..

reminder to each other – team spirit!!..

awwwwww…
my favourite – the nudibranches…

easy now….
reminder to each other – team spirit!!..

team spirit!!!!!!..

team spirit!!!!!!!!!!!!!…..

*pause*
there’s a pretty one…

team spirit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!…..

can see?

can see?

team spirit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!…..

hanging on…

still hanging on…
while mr divemaster comes to ease some load…

mr menyun making sure the tanks are ready for the 2nd dive..
and laid out our equipment nicely and neatly…

2nd dive…
let’s go!!
the coral garden..

hanging on to one another…
just so that we don’t get washed back to shore..

i found nemo!!

i found nemo again!!

mr eel…
i can never get their beady eyes…

where am i?..

colorful ribbon dance?

filling up for the next last dive…

everybody needs to eat…
everybody…

our little assistance…
who followed us a long way…
long long……long……

long………long………….long way…

my pink fins…
still loving them..

garden eels…

wow!!!!
mr barracuda!!…

he was massive…
and i really mean massive..
he really looks quite scary…not moving…
bearing his sharp teeth…

some clam…
their colours are amazing..

the most beautiful phenomenon to end the dive…
i didn’t bother searching for more things…
i swam around this huge school of trevally…
there was a big one swimming amongst them…
the more than 1m kind (form head to tail) kind of huge…

meditator menyun..

it was a nice feeling to be able to swim almost through it…
and yet they are safe…(no they are not baby barracudas)..
and they don’t swim away from you…

it was strange…
how i seemed to be invisible to them…
i wonder if they are ignoring me…
ok…i just wonder what do i look like to them…haha…

congratulations nate and kris!!
new divers!!
wooohoooooooooooo!!