Jakarta, Indonesia

I just arrived. Im a little sketched out.

Samporna, Malaysia (Borneo Still)

I went diving today at what is suppose to be some of the best diving in the world. I went to Mabul island off the coast of Samporna, and tomorrow Ill go diving again at Sipadan. To go to Sipadan you need a permit because the government only lets 120 people go each day. You also need to book your dive at least 2 weeks in advance to get a place. I just showed. But I managed to get a spot. It could have been the Jeffery charm or could have been that some German guy got marooned at the Bangkok airport because of the Thai protests, but who is to say. Either way, Im pretty excited

Today after we went out, I borrowed some pictures from a fellow American diver who rented an underwater digital camera.

These are those pictures . . . . .

Doug love fish.

I look like a drowned rat.


That sea turtle was probably as big as I was. The dive master thinks it was a couple hundred years old.

Our final dive of the day was done below an old Brunei Oil Derrick that was drug to that area to be used as a dive resort. So, if you wanted to, you could go diving from an oil rig. Its very James Bond.

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Before I arrived here I was hanging out in the Jungle on a wild life trek. I spent three days and two nights in the jungle. It was pretty exciting. I got to see some Monitor Lizards (the 5 foot lizard that I saw earlier in Miri in the water. They are the same genes as Komoto Dragons), Crocodile, tons of breakfast-stealing monkeys, Tarantula, Snakes, and loads of bugs. We also saw a wild orangutan in a tree. He wasnt doing much and was hard to see but still we saw him. On the final night in the jungle the guy sleeping next to me had to leave camp early and go by boat to the hospital. He had a fever and just felt very hot. If there is one place to get sick I dont think that was it. I wander how he is, he didnt look too good. I feel fine by the way.

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I dive tomorrow, then hang here for one more day. Then Ill head back to Kota Kinabula where Ill chill out for another day. Then Ill fly to Jakarta, Indonesia on the 6th.

Also, am I the only person who realizes there are pirates off the coast of Somalia? Everyday I check the news and the headlines are always about Somalian pirates. Every picture they show of the pirates, they are just two guys in a raft and only one has an automatic rifles. You are in a 100 foot tall cruise liner. Just dont Stop!