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28 June 2014
The trip to Fam Island had been described by outgoing guests as the highlight of their stay. With that recommendation, we were all very keen to go. Brian staying at Yenkoranu next door managed to negotiate a deal for IDR1m per head including the long boat ride and 2 dives. The extras included a stop […]
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 […]