Easter Sunday & The Last Blog From Jakarta

Easter Sunday was spent with friends. We had a yummy lunch at our friend Tom and Marina's house. It was like having the last supper so to speak as we only have two more days until we leave Jakarta and head back to Australia.

It was nice catching up with friends and seeing the kids do the Easter egg hunt.

Paige, Reuben & Rosie ready for the Easter egg hunt

Paige & Reuben doing an Easter egg hunt

Bernadette, Marina & Gloria Ben, Tom & Bruce

This will be the last blog from Jakarta.

We came, we saw and experienced the good the bad and the indifferent and now we are leaving.The past twelve months have just flown by and we are sad to be leaving. I hope one day we will return to Jakarta. You never know where our travels will lead us.

Farewell to our wonderful friends who we have spent time with over the past twelve months and to our wonderful staff Isah and Yamin who we will miss and hope one day meet again on our travels.

Only time will tell where our travels will lead.

Attending A Scuba Course Part Two - Kotok Island

As part of our scuba diving course we had to complete four open water dives. So after the two days in the pool and learning all about scuba diving we headed out to Kotok Island which is located about a one and a half hour speed boat trip from Jakarta and a part of the Thousand Islands (Pulau Seribu).

It was a rough trip out, due to being a bit choppy. We found Kotok Island very nice and quiet. The huts were basic but that's all we needed. On the Saturday we did two dives and on the Sunday we did another two dives and passed our course with flying colours. We met some wonderful people who all had been diving for a while.

Seeing the underwater world in a new light was very interesting we where really glad we were able to complete our first scuba coarse in time before we left Jakarta.

The boat taking us out to Kotok Island

Travelling in the bay

On the boat coming up to Kotok island

Our room

The open bathroom in our room

One of the scuba divers coming in from their dive

Looking out from the jetty

Bernadette and Ben standing on the jetty

Bernadette and Ben doing some snorkeling

Below are some photos taken while snorkeling

The below pictures are from our third dive

Ben entering the water going off the boat

Bernadette entering the water going off the boat

Ben and Bernadette scuba diving

Turtle we saw while scuba diving

We met Nemo while scuba diving

Bernadette waiting to head back on the boat to Jakarta

Attending a Scuba Diving Course - Part One

The dive office at the Kristel Hotel

Last week Ben and I attended a scuba diving course at the Kristel Hotel here in Jakarta. The dive coarse was a four day course which is made up of two days doing practical confined classes in the pool and then two days in the open water.

The two days in the pool was interesting as we where putting everything we had studied into practice for the first time. A part of the two days was also made up of tests which both Ben and I past.

We where glad we had done all the required reading before attending the course as it all came in handy and we where able to only spend two days in the pool.

Ben entering the water Bernadette entering the water

Bernadette & Ben all OK

Ben replacing his scuba mask under water

Ben all ok after replacing his scuba mask

Bernadette taking off her mask under water

Bernadette all OK after replacing her mask underwater

Paige's Last Day At BIS

As the school holidays are starting for the Easter break Paige's last day at BIS was the last day of term two. It was really nice for the class to have their photo taken together so Paige can keep and remember all her friends she made while in grade 2 at BIS in Jakarta.