In Senggigi this week we had the absolute pleasure in taking Budi and Ferry (from Jakarta) on their first underwater experience to discover scuba in the Gili Islands, Lombok!!!
It was 12pm in the afternoon of 20th February 2016 when they came into our dive centre in Senggigi.. eager, keen, excited and full of life. In luck we hadn’t had any trips booked this day so it was completely doable. Paperwork signed, equipment fitted, boat and car booked…within 30 minutes we were on our way!!
Budi and Ferry had instructors Kuss and myself plus our dive guide in training Jakar. In the water we went with no problems at all, lovely calm, clear waters, it was the perfect day. Once all the underwater skills were completed off we went on our adventures. We saw an astounding amount of life such as Moray eels, copious varieties of shrimps, frog fish, crab’s, 5 turtles (3 in the first dive and 2 in the second) and on both dives we had both the Green sea Turtle and Hawksbill. Massive Green sea turtles, to be fair I have never seen one so big in my whole diving experience. Other beauties we came across were lionfish, pufferfish, Bluefin trevally, huge unicorn fish, orangutan crab, peacock mantis shrimp, cuttlefish, nudie branch’s and many more.
It was a wonderful day. After the 2 dives we chilled out on Gili Air, had a lovely lunch chatting and friending on facebook. On the way back we made a quick stop for some fresh coconut milk which had a beautiful scenery of all 3 Gili islands.
It has been a quiet week due to the low season but still to have two excited, lovely, warm hearted people come in last minute makes your week or even your month. The diving was amazing, the company was amazing…we couldn’t ask for anymore.
Thank you both so very much , we hope you enjoyed your discover scuba experience and we look forward to your open water course in June 😉
