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27 June 2014
Staying on Pulau Kri at Koranu Fyak homestay, I made two dives with their dive shop, the Wobbegong Dive Centre. It was a much needed affordable homestay and dive centre. After breakfast, I fitted my gear. They didn’t have a good range of sizes of wetsuits and most were rather small for me and the other […]
27 June 2014
Above: My breakfast of kueh dadar. Breakfast today comprised of kueh dadar (green pancakes) with chocolate sprinkles (instead of the traditional coconut and brown sugar). I did two dives through our homestay in the morning with Ava, Eric and Danna. You can read about my dives here. Nicole tagged along for snorkelling. They continued for […]
26 June 2014
Today I moved to Pulau Kri for two days. I had tried to get the boatman to leave at 1000 but he was busy with dives so could only fit me in about 1500. I wasted about 3 hours waiting as I managed to fit in a couple hours of “work”. I went to Pasar […]
25 June 2014
Organising (or lack thereof) I had organised to do some diving through Mr Romy of Waiwo Dive Resort. He was very non-committal about all information he had given, eg. whether there were other guests, price and whether I could only do two dives instead of three. It made it look like a dodgy outfit. Apet, the […]
25 June 2014
After a breakfast of muesli which I had brought from home, Apet (the guesthouse/grocery shop worker) took me to Waiwo Dive Resort for my two dives. It was a long day as the others on the boat wanted three dives which meant that I had to wait. It was 0815 to 1800 door-to-door. You can […]
24 June 2014
It was an early flight departing at 0705 from Fak Fak to Sorong. I had made it to the airport by ojek. With a 0530 pick-up I was a wee bit nervous as to whether he would show up or not and it was only a small consolation having the driver’s number. There was a […]
23 June 2014
I got driven to Nabire airport at 0545. When I got there at 0630 the counter was unattended as the staff were busy despatching the flight to Jayapura. After a short wait, check-in commenced manually. The flight to Fak Fak via Kaimana left slightly late and got me to my destination more or less on […]
20 June 2014
I woke at 0530 and grabbed breakfast at the hotel restaurant before heading to the airport. At 0700 the check-in for the 0815 flight hadn’t opened but I joined the queue anyway, and fortunately they switched from the previous flight to mine just as I got to the front. It was raining cats and dogs, […]
19 June 2014
Today is the first day of the Lake Sentani Cultural Festival. I hadn’t planned on being here because the approximate dates in the guidebook didn’t quite fit in. But obviously there is some movement in the date year-to-year and I was lucky enough to be here for it. After breakfast, I led a group of […]
18 June 2014
I left my “lovely” hotel by becak for Wamena’s shed of an airport at 0800. I went straight to the check-in counter as there was no queue. There was already a large crowd in the departure hall but I later realised it was holding passengers for two flights and their well-wishers. My flight wasn’t till […]