Truk - Day 6

This was going to be our last day of diving in Truk.  I was tuckered out and kind of sick of diving, so I just decided to do the first dive, on the I-169 Submarine.  Again, I don't really have much noted about this dive...but Dan took this cute picture of me. 

After this, I took the rest of the afternoon off and took a nap and read my book.  Dan did two more dives and got some really cool pictures on a penetration of the Kansho Maru.

Engine room

Melanie swimming through the engine room

Toilets

Sometime during the dive Dan cut himself on something and he took a pic of his bleeder as

evidence in case he wasn't able to live to tell the tale.  Or something like that.

Before the third dive, it was raining really hard.  The air was colder than the water, so the divemasters made everyone get in the water and snorkle.  The last day of the day, and the trip, was on a tug boat.

Self Portrait

Buck and Bev trying to keep warm!  Those kind of look like forced smiles to me. :)

This was Bev's 200th dive, so Dan took a few pictures of her to capture the memory.

Truk - Day 5

Today we did two dives, one on the Nippo Maro and the second on the Shinkoku Maru.  Both dives were good...but I really don't have much interesting written in my logbook about them and we didn't take the camera along.  So, most of our pictures from this day were taken when Dan went on a little walkabout the island and through the resort.  It was a beautiful day!

View from our back deck.

Buck and Mike offgassing...and bs-ing.

A cute little crabby!

An old bunker from the war.

The ladies of the resort taking a break.

Rinse tanks for our dive gear.

Our dive boats.

Happy hour at the beach bar!

Dinner...YUMMY!

Truk - Day 4

This was a full day of diving, and we ended up doing four dives this day, including a night dive!!

Our first dive was on the Kansho Maru, and again I was diving with Mike so I didn't bring my camera along.  I didn't really like this dive, because there was a fairly lengthy penetration that I choose not to do, and I felt like a loser.  Anyway, there was some cool sealife on the ship to check out.  The second dive of the day was on the Sankisan Maru which was a SUPER cool dive!  This dive had a lot of coral and fish and was really pretty.  There were also some really large cargoholds to swim inside of and there were bullets and guns everywhere.  It was neat to see all that.

Our third dive of the day was on a patrol boat named the Suzuki.  It was a pretty small boat, and because Dan and I were doing the night dive they told us we could only dive for 20 minutes.  We totally thought that was BS, however, when we got down to the boat there wasn't really much to look at.  We swam around the boat a few times and took lots of pics, but there was really not much to it.  But there was A LOT of the BEAUTIFUL PINK and PURPLE CORAL that I love!

Dan was sticking his head down into the engine room, debating whether or not he wanted to follow the divemaster in.  He decided not to go in.

We did see a lot of pipefish all over this ship.  There are two in this picture and a cool looking fish, which I think might be a box fish or something.

Our fourth dive of the day was a night dive on the Fujikawa Maru.  This was the second time we had done this dive, and I loved it the first time so I was excited to see it at night.  We headed out to the dive site around 5:30 or so and got in the water as soon as it got dark, a little after 6 or so.

During the night, the soft corals come out to feed, and they look so beautiful!  It was pitch dark though, and without a flash lights we couldn't see anything.  And, if I didn't have the strobe lined up just right on whatever I wanted to take a picture of nothing turned out.  It was really cool.  I took a lot of pictures of the coral.

Sake, of course!

My favorite pretties!

A crab.

This is a picture of a scorpian fish, which is what Dan was stung by on our last night in Palau.  Dan got his revenge though, and flipped him off!  We all laughed underwater!

It was a great night dive!  My first one ever on a shipwreck.