Palau's divesites day 1: Fairyland + German Channel + Jellyfish lake

These first two dives we did with Fish'n'Fins, excellent service.  The plus side for me was 15 l tank and Nitrox 32%.  More bottom time...  :-)  So I did negative entries every time, first in the water and last to come up.  I gained even 20 minutes more divetime this way compared to others diving with air.  I didn't have to worry about bottom time accumulation with EANX!

All the time bottom temperatures were 29-30 degrees Celcius, some were diving with only t-shirts and shorts, but I had my own 2,5 mm Mares Tropic shortie.

Palau divesite map

The first divesite was Fairyland; 

An easy dive with slight current only to 22 meters as the DM Jonathan wanted to see the standard of our group.  Divetime 59 minutes.
Beautiful place! Plenty soft corals, even green coral. Small fire dartfish, humphead parrotfish, huge groupers, hawksbill turtle, big spanish mackerel, many big titan triggerfishes, longnosed butterflyfish, yellow mask angelfish, ornate butterflyfish and bird wrasses - male and female.

Second divesite:  German Channel

Bit  more demanding with currents, depth 22 m and divetime 61 minutes.

Very exciting, I had heard so much of this place!  Manta cleaning stations...  But we did not see even a shdow of a manta, maybe May is not the best season.  In the middle of the channel mouth viz is not so good, some big dogtooth tunas and bigger sharks in the distance.  But on the sides we saw plenty white and blacktip reefsharks, green and hawksbill turtles, huge napoleon wrasses, big unicornfish and blond coral groupers, a large yellowtail boxfish, scribbled filefish, clown triggers and plenty scads.  Nice large anemones with pink anemonefish.  All in all a nice dive, while waiting for the absent mantas there were many smaller critters to observe.

Third dive was freedive in the Jellyfish lake:

Wow!  Trekking up a steep hill and down the other side, carrying snorkeling gear, we saw a lake in the middle of an island.  The biggest jellyfish concentration is in the middle so we had to swim a bit.  It was at first not so pleasant, all the jellies brushing against your skin...  But they did not sting at all.  An experience, anyway!