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The underwater floor was black and grey speckles. Here and there brown rocks coated with green algae crudely stuck out of the bottom creating a depressing landscape with nearly no visibility. No colorful coral, no big fish, nothing to knock your fins off, unless... Unless you take a closer look.


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And once again into the blue,
into the red and the maroon,
into what wiggles and what bites,
and breathes with gills and has no plight.

I dive, look up, and wish mutation.
A simple swift transfiguration.
One that would allow to breath,
to stay beneath, and live like fish.


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After a short detour to Malaysia we flew straight back to Indonesia's Sulawesi Island. We simply couldn't stay away for too long - this part of Indonesia has some of the best diving spots and my fins were itching for a dip in the deep.

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We came, we saw, we left unimpressed. The endemic, deadly, and last of their kind - Komodo dragons - were sunbathing right next to the staff kitchen and couldn't care less about what was happening around them. "You are so lucky to see them, he-he" said our mandatory guide wielding a big stick. "Don't they always hang around here?" I asked knowing ( Read more... )