Diving

Sipadan diving, was 100 times better than what i imagined. We spent one night in the fancy hotel on the water. Johnny went to bed around 4pm so i did some emails then went to the fancy resturaunt and stuffed my face with crab by myself. When i got back to the room around 9pm the neighbors were being so loud that i felt like they were in the room with us. This lasted until the wee hours in the morning. I miss my ear plugs. Because i couldn’t understand what was being said, it was in Malay. I was able to tune it out and slept ok. We took off the next morning to Mabul island about 1 hour away. We have a room here which isn’t much. Two matrases in a room over the water. We had coffee readied our gear and took another boat along with five other divers and two diver masters to Sipadan Island. It is a small island sorounded by a huge reef. We were hoping to see a sea turtle and as soon as we hit the water and looked down we spotted three. The smallest one was the size of a large pizza and the biggest, like a patio table. By the end of the day we had seen around 30. At one point my fin was coming off so i headed to the bottom to anchor myself with my finger while i adjusted my fin. As i neared the ocean floor i looked up and saw the shell of an enormous turtle, i quickly took a deep breath and floated up and over him. If it wasn’t morally wrong or possible illeagel i would have loved to grab hold of one and taken it for a ride. We also spotted a few white tipped reef sharks, Maybe three or four feet long. A little school of barracuda swam by at one point. The visability was wonderfull and there was such a huge amount of marine life that i can barely remember everything we saw, wished i had an underwater camera. We did three dives and then headed back to our island. Today we bought a couple of dives around here. The weather on top is nicer than yesterday but down below it is a bit murky. We still saw some great stuff. On our second dive we saw maybe a 300lb grouper and i spotted the biggest cuttle fish i had ever seen. It must have been the size of my torso. We are done diving for the day and waiting for our ride back to the mainland. We will spend the night in the fancy hotel and take the early bus tomorrow to Sandakan and catch our flight to Mainland Malaysia, cross the border to Singapore and be on our way to Bali the next day. Hoping to move on to Advanced Open Water and possible Rescue Diver in Bali.