All-In met us with the truck at the airport, had to step out if the parking lot to run the card. It was an older Hilux Diesel manual transmission. The price was the price no add ons, no deductibles. She wouldn't win any beauty pageants but everything worked as it should. About $75 to $200 cheaper than other companies. Burned around 40 liters of fuel at $1 a liter during the week.
We stayed in the Shark unit at Den Laman, a two bedroom on the third floor rear of the building. It has a partial ocean view, and nice view of the park. The condo has everything needed and everything worked well, Sunwise was responsive when we requested a mop. It was windy, bug and rain free all week, so we had the windows open all waking hours and only closed up and put the AC on for sleeping. Most of the time in the condo was spent cooking, or hanging out and eating on the balcony with had a sun sail over it. Went inside one night to play cards to windy outside.
Dive Friends, never disappoint, good fills only had one air tank read under 3100 in the crate all week nitrox fills were generally 2950 or better,; my wife uses short nitrox tanks, there was a few times where only one was available, but the filled on up right away for her. All tanks read 31.X so some rounded up to 32 some down to 31. She is a stickler, I would have just left it at 31 and run MOD at 32. But I don't have a nitrox card so...
The diving, all in all very fishy, large schools of chromis and wrasse, tangs, snappers, grunts
and durgon also lots of puffers. More fish than I recall in 2022 or 2016. Far fewer eels, only spotted and snow flake, no greens. Way less crustaceans of all sorts, no lobsters. No squid no octopus no seahorses or frog fish a few turtles no rays.
Colorful sponges and lush soft corals, of many types. Relatively few anemones. Hard corals, some of the larger most impressive ones are dead and not coming back sctld and warm water bleaching have decimated the brain coral and several other large species. There ones that survived are looking good, splashes of color on browned out hills. It is very noticeable and heartbreaking on certain sites, I hope this just a period of transition and it will be back better if different before too long. We didn't do all the diving we planned to do, but did all we wanted to.
We will likely give it a couple of years before we return, but we will return.
I'll post some UW pics in a bit
We stayed in the Shark unit at Den Laman, a two bedroom on the third floor rear of the building. It has a partial ocean view, and nice view of the park. The condo has everything needed and everything worked well, Sunwise was responsive when we requested a mop. It was windy, bug and rain free all week, so we had the windows open all waking hours and only closed up and put the AC on for sleeping. Most of the time in the condo was spent cooking, or hanging out and eating on the balcony with had a sun sail over it. Went inside one night to play cards to windy outside.
Dive Friends, never disappoint, good fills only had one air tank read under 3100 in the crate all week nitrox fills were generally 2950 or better,; my wife uses short nitrox tanks, there was a few times where only one was available, but the filled on up right away for her. All tanks read 31.X so some rounded up to 32 some down to 31. She is a stickler, I would have just left it at 31 and run MOD at 32. But I don't have a nitrox card so...
The diving, all in all very fishy, large schools of chromis and wrasse, tangs, snappers, grunts
and durgon also lots of puffers. More fish than I recall in 2022 or 2016. Far fewer eels, only spotted and snow flake, no greens. Way less crustaceans of all sorts, no lobsters. No squid no octopus no seahorses or frog fish a few turtles no rays.
Colorful sponges and lush soft corals, of many types. Relatively few anemones. Hard corals, some of the larger most impressive ones are dead and not coming back sctld and warm water bleaching have decimated the brain coral and several other large species. There ones that survived are looking good, splashes of color on browned out hills. It is very noticeable and heartbreaking on certain sites, I hope this just a period of transition and it will be back better if different before too long. We didn't do all the diving we planned to do, but did all we wanted to.
We will likely give it a couple of years before we return, but we will return.
I'll post some UW pics in a bit
