I read somewhere that anticipation helps us derive greater joy from our vacations. I don’t know if that’s true, or if it’s just clickbait some travel writer dreamed up to feed the content mill. What I do know is that I’ve been dreaming about today’s adventure ever since we booked our trip to Bali.
Whenever our travels take us anywhere near an ocean, Christina and I always ask the same question: how’s the snorkeling?
In Bali, the snorkeling is excellent. The water is clear, the conditions are usually calm, and the sea life is beautiful. But there’s one spot in Bali, about one hundred feet off the beach at Tulamben, that offers something unique for snorkelers: a shipwreck.
Usually, shipwrecks are too deep for a snorkeler to see. They’re popular attractions for scuba divers, but unlike Christina, I don’t dive. I’ve tried diving, and somehow I managed to experience agoraphobia and claustrophobia—at the same time! So, no diving for me. Which means no shipwrecks for me either, or so I thought…
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