Die Idee ist:  Ziehe Deine ganze Tauchausrüstung während des Sicherheitsstops aus. Wenn Du aus dem Wasser steigst, kannst Du Dich sofort im Bikini in die Sonne legen.

Der Bootsfahrer sowie der Tauchlehrer waren begeistert.

Trotzdem genießt die Bilder:

That’s why we cancelled the island tour as well as the picnic tour, which we were actually planning to do.

The day turned to be very lazy. We were watching movies and went to the hairdresser.

At 11pm we got transfered to the airport and now we are lying here and waiting for the plane. Which is at 2.30am. So we have to wait for a looooooong time.

The airport was totally crowded with U.S. soldiers from Micronesia. We even saw a girl. And on the walls were pictures of there fallen soldiers, or as they call it “fallen heroes”. It’s a really sad sight. All the pictures of smiling young men, some of them more boys than men.

Then, when we were finally “in” we went to the foodcourt. There was a shop, called Wienerschnitzel, they sold all styles of hot dogs and corndogs, and no schnitzel. And next to it was a Burger King. A double whopper (large), french fries and a coke and we even tried a corn dog…yummy yummy…we were stuffed and went to the gate.

Theflight, I was stucked between dad and a pretty chobby asain guy, was not very special. I could even nap a little bit. The breakfast was uneatable and then we arrived in chuuk. It was 8.30am local time.

Our bags were the first ones that arrived and then we went to Blue Lagoon Hotel. With us an aisan guy and an australian couple. The men is pilot for the military and right now on vacation from afganisthan.

After checking in and getting our room, second floor seaside, we went to the diveshop to sign the papers. Daddy, of course, wanted to do a dive that day, but I denyed. So I arranged a dive for him at half past two, which he overslept. Well, I could have told him that before.

The dinner, I had a Japanese scrambeld egg with pork and rice – sounded complete different on the menu – was “interesting”. Erwin didn’t like it. We had a “Betthupferl”-cocktail at the bar – we were the only guests and went to bed again.

We went to bed again and at 2.30 pm we geared up for the first dive. It was an easy one. So we were watching some riff-fish and some other little things. The best thing was a manta shrimp. Never seen one before. Our guide teased it a little bit so it would come out a bit more. That one we were watching around 20minutes. One diver got angry with us, because when we took a picture we came a bit too close and it hid in its sandhole. Of course, he didn’t get tired of telling that to everyone.

After the 90 minutes dive we had our shower and went to the restaurant and bar ship. There we had a little beer, which was brewed by the hotel self, and a tasty dinner. The walls of the bar where full of papermoney all over the world.

Then we went to bed. In the room is no Television, so we watched a couple of movies on the laptop.

The bad thing for my dad was, that I was very tired and I had a terrible headache, so I was grumpy the whole day. Really grumpy.

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Natürlich gab es heute auch etliche surenjansche Diskussionen zu dem Thema: was brauchen wir? Ja, es ist unvorstellbar, aber sogar so hart gesottene Taucher wie wir überlegen nach wie vor was wir jetzt mitnehmen sollen. (Apropos: unsere Checkliste gibt es zum Download!)

Dieses Jahr ist alles ja etwas anders, da Sugal und ich die meiste Zeit alleine unterwegs sind und ich deshalb diesmal zum ersten Mal Beleuchter bin! Ich hoffe, dass ich mein Schwesterlein gut vertreten kann.

Ihr fragt euch wahrscheinlich schon die ganze Zeit: Wohin gehts eigentlich?

Am 16.12 Morgens geht die Reise los!

Linz – Wien – Doha – Cebu (Ankunft am 17.12 Nachmittag Ortszeit)

In Malapascua Sunsplash verbringen wir die ersten 7 Tage und werden 10 Tauchgänge absolvieren.

Dann, am 23.12,  geht es weiter nach Manila, wo wir den 24.12 hoffentlich mit Mama verbringen werden, sofern unsere “Krummzehe” den Flieger erwischt! Von 23. – 25. sind wir im Shangri La Makati und haben somit viel Zeit, um Manila unsicher zu machen.

Wir drei reisen dann weiter nach Palau, wo wir im Palau Pacific Resort 10 Tauchtage verbringen werden. Dort werden wir auch das erste Mal ohne Sassilein Silvester feiern :(

Am 05.01 müssen wir Mümü alias hoffentlich-nicht-mehr-Humpelbeinchen verabschieden und wir düsen weiter nach Yap. Dort steigen wir im Manta Ray Bay Hotel ab. Dort sind wir für 4 Nächte und werden 8 Tauchgänge machen.

Am 13.01 geht es weiter zur letzten Station. Wir fliegen von Yap nach Guam und nach 3 Stunden Aufenthalt weiter nach Truk. Dort verbringen wir 5 Nächte im Hotel Truk Lagoon und machen wiederum 8 Tauchgänge. Dieser Platz ist vor allem für Wrack-Tauchen bekannt.

Und am 18.01 geht es in einer Tour heimwärts!

Truk – Guam – Manila – Singapore – Frankfurt – Linz – K1

Also, wie ihr sicherlich erraten könnt, ist unsere Vorfreude R-I-E-S-I-G! Und wir sind 34 Tage unterwegs! Wir hoffen natürlich, dass wir genauso gewissenhaft schreiben werden, wie unser lieber IT-Cheffe.