First dives on Tanna

So I arrived at my ‚home‘ for the next ten days yesterday afternoon. I enjoyed the sunset during happy hour with a glass of wine and intended to come back for dinner but then I wasn’t hungry so I just went to sleep. And it was the first night of this vacation that I really slept and that till 6 AM… so that is good. Still not hungry for breakfast but I had two dives scheduled so I ate some toast.

And then to the dive-center where we did the formalities. This dive shop is the only one on the island and has been opened about 1.5 years ago so I am one of the first divers here (there aren’t that many divers here). My guide Jimmy and I drove to a small beach about 4 km from the resort and did two shore dives from there. The first thing I saw in the water was a blue-ring octopus and I think it had eggs. Unfortunately I realized a bit later that my flash was not working so the colours on these pics are not really good. 🙁 It is a different blue ring than the one I know from Lembeh. Jimmy and I found some really cool nudibranches and even he was happy because he had never seen some of them before. AND I found my idiomysis (little 2 mm shrimps with BIG eyes). In Lembeh I had seen yellow ones and blue ones but there the have stripes and are either black or blue and yellow. I will try to get some better pics in the next days… here are the dive-pics from today…