Probably the best day of the holiday so far, as finally the stars seemed to align with everything we did. A very early start saw us bike round to the other side of the island for the final time to get the 9am dive trip with Blue Marlin, again as a DSD couple, but no need for theory and only the two of us in a group.
We headed to the dive site and once in, hardly had to swim for the first little bit as the current swept us past bountiful coral, fish and turtles!!!! Upon realising how strong it was the current, our instructor had us needing to kick quite a bit to elongate the dive and stop us sliding off the reef. This was hard work but by keeping low less energy was required, so at points we were practically hiding behind the turtles, so close we could touch, but didn't as we are good ecotourists!
After this fabulous experience, we have decided to look into holidays where we can do our PADI open water course in the future. We then headed to a beach bar to chill out and get liquids and lunch on board before renting our own boat with a skipper to take us snorkelling around the sister island Gili Meno (Gili Air will have to wait for another time!) in all we had three stops at varying different sites with different levels and variety of coral, fish and turtles which was brilliant. Amanda's confidence has really grown although she did decide to keep the life vest on! What was also great was watching the skipper go fishing for his dinner using a gun like instrument that basically stunned the fish. An excellent afternoon.
Back on the bikes home for sunset, including a go on the swings then it was to the next door resort (the bikes having been handed back) for dinner, delicious King Prawns at Aston restaurant for me and Amanda had a Mhai-Mhai fish. A few beers on the sofa/bean bags and the Gili Island experience was sadly all over. A wonderfully chilled out place and somewhere I would consider coming back to!
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