We did two dives at Manta Way. Both dives had good manta activity once we found the right area. On the first dive, things really picked up near the end, and we were still watching the dancing mantas from the surface at the end of the dive. I didn’t want to leave!
On the second dive, we ended up at a cleaning station by ourselves with two mantas for about 40 minutes, which was probably the best manta encounter of the trip. After hearing dive after dive that we might see mantas on this or that site, we finally had a really really great manta encounter to cap off the trip. This was by far the best manta encounter I’ve ever had, not because there were so many of them, but because we had a nice long peaceful encounter where we got to watch the manta ballet.
Both dives ended more or less when we were low on gas. I think the second dive was like 80 or 90 minutes long, and Clinton and I were both hanging out kind of shallow for a while to drag things out as long as we could! So while this description of the two dives is short and not very exciting, the dives themselves were long and filled with awesome manta watching! I have tons of video footage, which of course I haven't processed yet, and I probably won't find time to do it until I retire :P
After diving, we started the trip back to Sorong. That evening, there was a feast with Indonesian food, and then some music from the crew. The food was delicious and the music was fun.
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