Friday 23 August Diving Binongko

Sometimes on our travels the double advantage of a yacht and being set up to go diving from the mother boat has enabled us to reach parts many others never see. Diving on the wall, the immaculate, pristine, rarely dived walls of Binongko was spectacular. There's no tourism on this island, no anchorage for yachts and it's just too far for the few liveaboards in the area to visit so we had the rare privilege to see coral unharmed by man. That's a rarity. One reads of biodiversity, here there are species of coral I've never seen before, so many different species, the same with varieties of anemones, truncates, sponges. Clarity was in the region of 30m with the wall dropping at least 100m below us and lots and lots of fishes and a few turtles. As our American friends would say, we were stoked on our diving today, ie excited.

My only regret is not having an underwater camera to capture the images beyond my memory.