As some of you may know, one of the most important building inspections has to be carried out by a cat. Is the scaffolding suitable? Are the walls straight? Is the cement the proper consistency? Well this week it was time to check that the dive centre was being build to the correct feline specifications. Neo was, as ever, …
Monsoon, Websites, Shopping and Cats…
To pretend that Ambon does not have a serious wet season is difficult. Today is sunny, but for the previous 5 days it has rained pretty much constantly and continuously. We are lucky that the Aston is out of town, and therefore we do not getting flooding, rivers running down the streets or anything like that….just wet grey days… It …
The work continues..
I can’t believe it’s been nearly a month since my last post. Time flies so quickly. It’s been a very busy month, thought for most of it I have been away. For two weeks I was on a liveaboard in North Sulawesi, finally getting to the the northern Sangihe Islands I had never visited while in Lembeh. Then it was …
Dig dig digging…..
Work has continued! Construction in Indonesia is a very manual affair. Not much machinery is on display….people-power is king. So, first the building layout is marked. This is done building small wooden structures, hammer a nail in the top, then tie string between the nails. This gives us the wall and floor plan. Next it’s digging time. This is simply …
Breaking Ground!!
We have now been in Ambon for nearly a month. As you can imagine, there is a lot to do. We need to build a Dive Centre, Jetty and a home, as well as get the boats, engines, compressors and equipment over here. for the first few weeks we’ve been getting to know the place. We’ve been familiarising ourselves with …
And so it begins….
Well, the website is up….not in any finalised form, but we thought that as Barb will be at ADEX (Singapore) promoting us, it would be a good idea to get something on-line. We obviously have a long way to go. We will not arrive in Ambon until sometime in May and then we need to start setting everything up. It’s …
