November 23, 2025
The Days in Uepi begin with amazing Manta experience. Uepi has been blessed with a Manta cleaning station, a few short minutes ride off their entry reef. Each morning, around 7 am, the Mantas hang in this shallow area and have cleaning fish latch on and remove particles from their skin and we get a front row viewing of these majestic creatures! This video was filmed by the Kelly's showing 5 Mantas.
Monday April 6th is another travel day for us on our destination to remote Raja Ampat . We started the day at 5am to make our 7am flight from Denpasar, Bali to Sultan Hasanuddin Airport in South Sulawesi for our brief layover to connect with our flight onto Sorong, Indonesia.
Easter turned out to be a travel day for Bosco and I as we were extremely limited in when we could be seen by the Australian Border Control to disembark from the Ship, for a scuba diving adventure in Raja Ampat that I have had reserved, for over 18 months! We flew from Perth to Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia on Easter afternoon.
I have been really excited to get to Fremantle / Perth for my first time. I have had a few friends live here over the years and I have a second cousin, James Murphy, who I have only ever spoken too briefly, over the last 35 years and that I would love to meet in person. Jim is the older brother of Paul who I met up with in Melbourne a few weeks ago.