With everything calming down in Dili it was time to get back in the water and do a little diving.

My pal ,Marianne, of Free Fow Dive was in the dive mode too so we went over to the Pertamina Fuel dock at the end of the beach road to have a look.

It had been a stressful week so it was good to get in a different enviornment for a bit. When the weather permits there is a lot of macro and corals down there to see and it is just a hop from the dive shop.

There was a pretty good surf rolling in that flopped us around a bit on the way in but we were going diving! We figured we would try for the third light post and then drop to the bottom and get all the rocks out of out booties. Only problem was that there was a strong current running and about 1 meter vis.

We just had to dive with the stones in the booties. After about 15 minutes we decided that it was ridiculous and went to the top for a discussion. We thought maybe we could go further out along the pier and might get better vis.

The current thought otherwise and really I was thinking the whole time we were down there how we were going to exit because the surf was building. We scratched the dive and swam to a spot in the beach that didn't have as much surf for our exit.

Long walk back to the truck. Wasted dive? Not really! It was great to get back in the water again!