Conditions hold for another two dives before some swells come up from the southwest making further dives more treacherous. There was a unusual shape the showed up on the depth sounder on the way in, so we decide to go check it out. We make several attempt to get a drop line on it but the current takes our line out of position and it is too deep to dive on safely. Returning to the reef we pick up our mooring line but with the swells coming in, Hans doesn't feel it is secure and we are surrounded on three sides by reef. So it is decided with conditions deteriorating we will head back to Miri.
Nagas are semi-divine, semi-human spirits in Indian and Southeast Asian mythology. Notes from a traveler: "He did not think of himself as a tourist; he was a traveler. The difference was partly one of time, he would explain. Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler, belonging no more to one place than the next, moves slowly, over periods of years, from one part of the earth to another. " — Paul Bowles (The Sheltering Sky)
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