Quick excerpt from my journal from the section about our recent dive trip in Raja Ampat, Indonesia. So we got up early and headed to the dive shop, where we met our dive guide, Farize. He seemed like a pretty nice guy and he brought us to the boat, and despite looking a bit disheveled it floated and after getting some last minute supplies we took off. The boat, called the Bali Prima, was manned by the captain, the cook, an engineer, and he dingy boat guy, plus...

Ok so we have been in Bali for over 1 week doing an assortment of different things, so let me just do a quick rundown of our activities. Feb 26 - Hung out at hotel for morning and caught up on sleep, in the afternoon walked along beach and organized Ally's surfing lesson for the next day. Feb 27 - Ally did her lesson whilst I sat on the beach and watched. Forgot to bring sunny lotion so got burned to a crisp. I was pretty nervous about my knee messing m...

So quick entry that is straight from my Journal. This part detials our travels from Medan, to Bromo, to Ijen, and onwards to Bali. So this was a travel day going from Mt Toba all the way to Medan, where we would then fly to Java. We caught the earilerst ferry across the lake and then managed to get a public bus for super cheap all the way to Medan. The bus ride was crowded and noisy, and not comfortable, but we made it and didn't spend much money. We got in to...

Wow, Sorry everyone! Its been a long time since I've updated this blog, and my apologies for that. We have done a lot of traveling in the last 2 weeks and for much of it have not had quality internet access, but now we have finally made it to Bali so I'll attempt to backtrack and fill in the missing parts. So we left Malaysia and traveled by bus down the coast, where we then took a ferry across to Dumai City, Indonesia. From there we took another bus up to Medan...