Tuesday 20 August Diving Hoga

What have we done for the last four day? Diving, diving, diving. The most and the best we have enjoyed for a very long time. This is what we came to Indonesia, and especially to Wakatobi, to do. Sometimes we fitted in three dives, sometimes two extra long swims as it's not deep stuff. Mostly it's been on the wall looking for the small critters and we did find some good stuff, plenty of lion fish, diverse corals, bump head wrasse, and no current, but we did a dive on a pinnacle covered with gorgonian fans, a sure sign of current, and found it on the top of the rock. Plenty of lobsters in the overhangs too.

The local fishermen know where to find lobsters outside the dive area because although we saw no locals swimming where we were two enterprising canoes caught and sold us four lobsters for our supper this evening. We kept then fresh for the day in a large bucket tied to the stern and hung in the water. Simply boiled with garlic butter they were delicious.

Hoga has been good, very good; a secure place to the leave the big boat and easy access to easy diving. Tomorrow we move on to Tomia island. I've phoned the resort there and they are going to send a speed boat out to meet us and show us a mooring ball where we (Geramar is coming too) can tie up.