East Nusa Tenggara, the pink beach, gets is pink color from the brilliant red coral that degrades when the coral itself dies and the skeleton of calcium carbonate breaks apart. From a distance it is hard to see the pink but at the waters edge of is pretty spectacular.
We went snorkeling and I took some pretty cool videos here: https://youtu.be/JFaOk4JRY0c and https://youtu.be/SLR-uApupVo. I even found nemo: https://youtu.be/VWqyp_vs4X0
Turtle bay, Sivi island
Next we went to snorkel to look for turtles. Here is where I made my biggest mistakes. It was pretty deep water and I’m not a very strong swimmer. With the current, I could not really pay attention to the camera I had and as a result I did not get the actual footage of the large turtle in front of me which was spectacular. Next time a life vest would give me more peace of mind to attend to the camera. I did get some pictures but the turtle was actually much closer to me after I took them. Though heartbroken I can’t share what I saw when it was literally right in front of me, maybe it was just meant for me to enjoy.
Snorkeling in Menjerite bay
This was deep water and yes I wore a life vest. I did get some decent video here. https://youtu.be/6bKrOFrPKN0, https://youtu.be/iezli6sP_dI, https://youtu.be/wbhHtQf-zm8, and https://youtu.be/7rPmB0cCjvc.
Kelor Island, snorkeling and trekking
We took a speed boat in to the island. The top of the island is a great panorama viewpoint. The snorkeling was okay but there were incredible large schools of fish. The fish that close to shore are very aggressive and would nip at your legs. It did not hurt but was surprising and over and over became very annoying.
Snorkeling videos: https://youtu.be/Ki2pv_OkgKw and https://youtu.be/jT4AQuCIsAo.
Afterwards we went back to the boat to clean up and have lunch. We had a little time to walk around Labuan Bajo.
We had a flight to Jakarta in mid afternoon. If I were to do it again I would stay another day. A proper shower with warm water would have been appreciated. But we had a lot to plan around and chose the flight back to China earlier based upon the current 8 day quarantine which ended up being changed to no quarantine. We also should not have booked our flight out so early but we were not sure what was going to happen and all indication at the time showed not a loosening of restrictions.