Arrived in Chuuk on Friday AM, and checked in at Blue Lagoon Resort for my Fri-Sat-Sun stay before boarding the Odyssey.
The diving with Blue Lagoon Dive Shop is quite nice; the boats are fast, covered, and they take you wherever you want to go. Yesterday (Saturday) I dove with an 18yr old kid from Canada who's here with his dad. (Dad was hungover so didn't dive with us.) So it was just me and this kid on the boat, with two guides. We had each of the wrecks entirely to ourselves. We did the Nippo Maru, Kensho Maru and the Betty Bomber yesterday. All very good dives. The engine room in the K.M. was phenomenal. Will do 3 dives today before boarding the Odyssey.
The Blue Lagoon Resort is a pretty good place. Room is nice, room location is impossible to beat...
Food has been surprisingly good, and cheap. I'd have to do the math - and wait until after being on the Odyssey - but I think this place would be a pretty good alternative to the Odyssey if you wanted to dive Truk but didn't want to bear the cost of a liveaboard. (Though I'm pretty sure I'll default to the idea that "valet" diving is really the way to go.)
The diving with Blue Lagoon Dive Shop is quite nice; the boats are fast, covered, and they take you wherever you want to go. Yesterday (Saturday) I dove with an 18yr old kid from Canada who's here with his dad. (Dad was hungover so didn't dive with us.) So it was just me and this kid on the boat, with two guides. We had each of the wrecks entirely to ourselves. We did the Nippo Maru, Kensho Maru and the Betty Bomber yesterday. All very good dives. The engine room in the K.M. was phenomenal. Will do 3 dives today before boarding the Odyssey.
The Blue Lagoon Resort is a pretty good place. Room is nice, room location is impossible to beat...
Food has been surprisingly good, and cheap. I'd have to do the math - and wait until after being on the Odyssey - but I think this place would be a pretty good alternative to the Odyssey if you wanted to dive Truk but didn't want to bear the cost of a liveaboard. (Though I'm pretty sure I'll default to the idea that "valet" diving is really the way to go.)
