First we went from Yap to Guam. I had to fill out U.S. immigration forms for each of us and when we arrived in Guam the waiting started. First passport control, which was pretty fast, then flightticket control, and then long long queue for handluggage control. I, wisely, put the big underwater lamp seperatly before letting the lugage through. So I didn’t have to let my luggage be checked twice. And again I had to take off my flipflops.

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.

Same procedure than every day. Except that we gave up in trying to see mantas and we went directly to the reef.

The first dive we did at the canvas. That was very cool. We dived through many caves for nearly 40 minutes. There were different types of lionfish and some filefish. One little brown one with whithe circles. I’m not sure if it really was an filefish, but it was adoreable. Daddy tried to take a picture of it, however, he is not used to the camera of Mümü.

The weather turned a bit while we were on divebreak and the waves got huge. So I geared up in the wather and even while we were diving it was very weavy. We did not do the canvas, but the reef next to them. There was a quite big white tipped reefshark. The camera got grounded to the boat, because it work again.

That night we went to dinner with Regina and Willi, the two from Vienna, because it was our last diveday we had a couple of winebottles till they kicked us out of the restaurant because they wanted to go to bed. Then the four of us just went to the pool, where we had some more bottels. After sunrise the last one, which was me, went to bed…pretty drunk….I had a good talk with Elnore from the reception and despite that I was only drinking water at the end, I had the worst hangover the next day. I coudln’t even eat plain toast. So I left the restaurant and jumped in the nice cold pool and afterwards straight back to bed.

At half past two we booked an island tour. Our guide, who couldn’t really be described as very talkaktiv, drove us around the island. Showed us a community house – used to talk about what they will do that day/week, for celebrations and so on, a men house – which is not allowed of women to enter, it is used for the men to sit there and protect the village. And the boys get taught the knowledge of the elder ones. Men houses are always at the sea, the stonepath – it was used before they got cars. On the path you can reach each village and each community/men house, the WWII leftovers – two small japanese planes and one “Kanone”, and the hill up so we could see the philippine sea at one side of the island and the pacific on the other side.

After three hours he dropped us off at the hotel again. After a little swim at the pool we went to dinner with Regina and Willi again. All three, except me, were already able to drink alcohol again. It kind of astonished me. We had tasty pizzas and than Regina and Willi had to say goodbye. They were heading to the ppr in palau. We left the restaurant as well and went to the room, because we were allowed to stay there till midnight. At midnight we got an wakeup call and I went down, however, nobody really cared if we leave to room or not and so I went back again. The bus. The driver was surprinsingly our guide from the land tour that afternoon and the guide of reginas and willis kayaking in the morning. I think that night all guest from the hotel left.

At the airport we had to open all our bags, but luckily they could check it through till chuuk. Then we went to immigration and after that to the gate, where they checked the hand luggage and we even had to take off our flipflops. And then we were sitting there and nearly each of the persons had bracelts of real flowers or crowns of them. I also got a bracelet at the hotel for farewell.

One thing to yesterday, which was very great. we had a cinema on an ship. That scenery was very cool. We watched Lord of War, which I can totally recommend! Daddy was it to windy outside, so he was already oin bed when I came to the room.

That night it was pouring with rain and the storm was so strong that the moskitonet fell out of the window and directly on me. The shock of my lifetime. I had such a lively dream and suddenly rummmmms! In the morning I told the recepionist to get someone to fix it and she looked at me with such a pissed expression on her face. I nearly fell sorry that I had to give her work.

That day we were on the diveboat with an Austria couple from Vienna. They told us that they were there already 10 days and that they are counting the minutes when they are going to Palau. Of course, the visibility was bad again. We were just too lucky on the trip till now, somewhen that has to change. So it was again a day without even a plastic manta. The difference was that the “soup” where we were diving in wasn’t green but white as milk. Well, but we saw the octopus again. Maybe they should change the advertising and guarantee for octopusses…. The Austrian couple asked the guides to change the plan and instead of going to the Mi’l Point – the Manta point – agin we went to Vertigo.

Vertigo is a reefdive, where they also do the shark feeding. So we had around 8 riffsharks (grey and whitetip) accompanying us for around 20 minutes. And the visibility, I didn’t even dare to hope that, was good. Actually it was excellent!The reef hase mostly hard corals and unfortunately not really many fish. The guide told me that it is an private reef, where the people do lots of speerfishing and noone can stop them.

The third dive only daddy and I wanted to do, the others singed in or the mandarine dive at 5.30 pm. So we got an break from around half an hour. (The trip home form the last dive took very long, because we had to go the long way around the coast – otherwise the waves would have been to big. And it was raining again.

So We left at around 2.30pm and went to the reef again. The visibility was even better than before. There were lots of huge hard corals and a shark. My stupid mask was fogy again. New equipment really sucks.

After the third dive we went to the room for our daily shower and than to the restaurantboat. We had tuna poke as a starter and it was delicious!

The second day we started at 8am. We had breakfast and graped our stuff to go diving. The dives were pretty shallow. Unfortunately, no mantas. so we watched the shrimps and their fish bouncers. At the second dive we saw an manta shrimp again and a krokodil fish and at the one before we saw one sleeping shark. However, the visibility was so bad today that we skipt the 3rd dive. Now we are lying in the room, because it is heavily raining and very stormy.

Today we arrived in Yap at around 4am. After a short sleep for something like 3 or 4 hours, we had a little breakfast. That was totally different to the one we were used to from ppr. so, we did’t try tons of food, only scrambeld eggs and a toast. Erwin will be happy about it.

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.