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Thirteenth Stop Manta Ray
We arrived in Manta Ray on the 22nd October getting a catamaran to the Island. The journey took 2hrs 30mins. For about an hour of the trip we were surrounded by the most excitable Kiwi kids. They were actually quite funny and sang to us in Mouri.
We got to Manta Ray just in time for lunch. The food is hard to export among the islands so all the food and accommodation is paid for together and buffets are set up for breakfast, lunch and diner.
After lunch we had a classroom lesson on scuba diving and were given questions to answer and a text book to study. It was pretty good but we were worried abut the amount of studying we might have to do.
On the 23rd we started our practical lessons. There were two Italians who had already done a day of practical lessons and were much better than us, we seemed to be sinking to the bottom or floating to the top all the time.
That night we met a massive group of Irish people about 12 or 15 and played drinking games with them all night. The resort had also set up limbo dancing which Andy managed to get down to the last 4 or 5 – mainly through unashamed cheating though.
On the 24th we were much more confident under the water and had our maneuvers down perfectly. The highlight however was getting the chance to scuba with a Manta Ray. That evening we sat our test, 50 multiple choice questions.
We passed but I think its pretty hard to fail. So we were in a mood to celebrate. The whole Irish crew left that day but we met a big group of girls that had just met on the boat over. They were: Fiona, Rachel, Liz, Elle, Bianca, Brook, Hanna, Stacey and Jemma. Again the resort had set up an event called paper dancing where you get a news paper and you and your partner has to stand on it and dance until the music stops. Then the paper is folded in half every round, if you fall off your out. Being the only two guys in the group of about 11 we where forced to dance. I think me and Fiona where first out but Andy and Bianca done well and got to the last two couples before falling. The rest of the night was a great laugh and we played drinking games.
On the 25th we got to dive off the boat for a deep dive at the Garden of Eden. It was amazing we got down about 20 meters and the visibility was about 10 meters, we even managed to see a sea turtle.
That night again we met up with the girls, a Danish guy Fleming who had been diving with us that day, our dive master Pete and the owner of the Resort an Aussie guy, Ryan. Ryan taught us a drinking game, called Paralyzer, which we have now adopted as our own because everyone seems to love it.
On the 26th we had our last dive. It turned out to be a farce though there were 15 of us to dive there was only 14 tanks, and then another tank broke. So it meant that we and another two guys only got half a dive.
After lunch that day we left to go to Beachcomber the party Island…
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