Flores, Kanawa Island and Diving

We arrived in Labuanbajo, Flores after our 9 hour ferry ride and had a great night out with the three other tourists that had been on our boat. The following day we organised our dive trip, a trip to the tropical paradise, Kanawa Island, and had our hair cut by this lovely 'lady boy':

These are her feet:
This is the port in Labuanbajo. We stayed at the top of a hill and it was hard work trekking up there but we had great views.

This is the view of Kanawa Island. We had a wonderful time here relaxing and snorkelling. There are only 10 basic bungalows here and a small restaurant.


The sunsets have been amazing but this one was exceptional.

There were 2 very friendly deer on the island and at low tide they has a paddle and ate the sea grass.

This is us with our new Australian and Swiss friends that shared the island with us:


We then did a 5 day diving trip. We got a really great price to do a liveaboard with 4 Italians who'd chartered a boat and had agreed that we could join them. The diving was amazing and we saw pristine corals, Manta Rays, sharks, turtles, masses of fish and some very strange stuff too. At times the currents made you feel that you were in a washing machine and we had to cling onto the corals. Very scary but also a lot of fun!

However, the Dive Master had no organisational skills and spoke very little English and one of the Italians was a total nightmare in and out of the water. There were a lot of problems from the start and it ended with us leaving the boat early as the boat had run out of food and fresh water to shower with.

As part of the trip we went to see the Komodo Dragons on Rinca. We saw 8 of the beasts relaxing in the shade. We had to have 2 guides with us, both with sticks to attack them with if they decided to eat us.