Thursday, April 1 (Pete’s BDAY!!!)
For Peteys bday we decided to dive again. This time we went to Hahn’s Reef off of Gili Air. What the dive lacked in terms of visibility, it made up for in topography and fish species. We started off swimming along various reef outcroppings until we reached a huge rock/tower/mountain reef. We just circled this huge mountain, seeing all kinds of sweet species. Fish included: 3 Rockfish (very very poisonous and hard to spot), leaf scorpion fish (really cool looking fish), hawksbilll turtle, yellow mouth eel (I spotted this guy), leopard flounder, peacock mantis shrimp, thorny oyster and giant clam (so cool to see these open and close, they were HUGE), large porcupine puffer, common cowrie shell, emperor angelfish (beautiful blue white and black stripes), baby schools of feeding catfish, clownfish, trigger, and nudibranches. The coral formations were really interesting, huge underwater mushrooms, and beautiful colors.
After a tiring morning, we went to the beach in the afternoon to relax and swim. The water was clear and bright turquoise and Pete enjoyed all the topless Swedish girls.
We went out to dinner at the Irish bar…nothing beats pizza and chimichangas on the ocean. We then went to Rudy’s bar, where we befriended the locals working there who are hilarious and only speak broken English. After chilling at the bar for a bit, we went to the beach and played in the sand for the rest of the night. On the way home we stopped for a bit at a bar that was playing amazing live reggae music (Sama Sama Bar). This concluded what was an unforgettable bday for Pete.
Da Beach
Bartenders made us sweet straw decorations
Pete and the locals on his Bday
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