Mom gets up early and goes out to the beach and comes back in wakes me up and tells me that I have to go outside and see all the fishing boats they are heading in with the catch of the day. So, I jump up and we head outside to see the ocean dotted with the wooden sailboats they use to fish. The men go out very early in the morning way before dawn to fish mackerel. They come back shortly after sunrise and the women await them on the beach for the day's catch. Our neighbor comes in and he has a grand total of 2 mackerel. The wife, Made, is talking to us and offers us her massage services. Mom will take her up on that offer. So we go have some breakfast of nasi goreng with telur mata sapi and Made comes by to give mom her morning massage while I go get ready for my diving date...bikini - check, mask - check, snorkel-check....yeah, my diving gear is really limited. Diving is one of the main things that I wanted to do out here since I specifically got my open water certification just to come here and I'm really happy that I can dive with someone I feel comfortable with (not a perfect stranger) and that everyone is coming with and will be able to enjoy the spot at least snorkeling. Mom has her gear in tow - shes a seasoned snorkeler.
Hanging out by the pool a young woman who is also staying at Life approaches us and asks us where we are from and it turns out that she is also a Cuban-American girl, Erika, who graduated my same year from highschool and went to UM. What are the chances? We are in an area that doesn't get many tourists. Our hotel is literally the only place in the village of Lean. There are a handful of places up the coast and we find ourselves in the same place with someone who is from Miami? Wow. As it turns out she and her husband also live(d) in New York City. We chat for a while until they arrive to get us and we head to Tulamben about 15 minutes from where we are staying. We pick up our gear at a local dive shop and arrive at the beach where we will go diving and snorkeling. The wreck is just off the beach so you just walk in which is really great for snorkeling. The first dive we went around the wreck. Kare was showing me the coolest stuff ever. I think he pulled out all the tricks for me. I saw marine life that I would have never noticed on my own. I saw the tiniest fish ever, camouflaged fish, all sorts of things that have reactions like anemones and sorry again for my lack of knowledge of the actual things I saw (sorry Lauren!), I wish I had a manual so I could just go checking them and then write a report later. I did bring my camera on the second dive (i'll post pics soon) and this time we went inside the wreck. When Kare told me we would go inside, I felt really comfortable with him so I knew it would be okay, but I told him not to say in front of mom because she would get worried. Anyway, the areas we went in weren't so closed off and I felt really good with Kare as he basically took care of me (holding my hand and adjusting my buoyancy as he felt fit). I got a bit of a crush on him now. It was the best dive I have ever been on.
Inge, Kare and Rahul hang out at our hotel for a while before heading back to south Bali. We goof off which is what we are good at. Tease Rahul like crazy and take videos of him singing songs in English and air drumming. Rahul calls mom, his mom and mami now calls him son. Its really cute, so he's my Balinese brother now. Mom gives him advice about life and we just act like idiots.
Tomorrow we will head through Bali to the city of Ubud for about 4 days before going back to Sanur (me for only 1 day) and then leaving Indonesia.
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