Last night at the bar, Dood (resort manager) announced that he was off to Manilla before heading down to Sydney for a dive show. Consequently he made me temporary resort manager (oh, the power!).
My first duty was to assign Jo as temporary resort manager, at which point she decided to give the staff a day off, she was going diving and I was left to do everything else at the resort (well, that wasn’t going to last very long) so we are currently sharing the burden (or at least until I am advised otherwise!)
Eggs on toast for breakfast, cameras prepped and we head out for our first dive which today is Mainit Corner.
Dive #21 Mainit Corner
This is a truely spectacular site as it is a rocky outcrop on a peninsula, so many different routes around the rocks and so many things to see.
Despite spending a lot of time at around 24m, we still manage to make 70 minutes with plenty to keep us busy at the shallower depths.
Back to the boat for coffee, oreos and the surface interval.
Dive #30 Elmers Point
A great bimble around coral outcrops. Nudi and shrimp action keeps us busy.
A short (2 minute) trip back to base for an early lunch of B.L.T. and Kinilaw na Tanigue (fish ceviche) followed by camera prep and rest before the 15.00 dive.
Several guests leave today as well as Dood, our host who is off to Sydney for a dive show. We hope to see him next March in the U.K. for our dive show.
I collected two bottles of Dom Pappa rum which Dood had organised, we hope to get them back to the U.K. in one piece.
Dive #31 Apols Point
An awesome dive on this spectacularly colourful and awesome reef. This dive could only have been improved by me changing my strobe battery before going in. As it happened, I did not so it ran out half way through, never mind, nice to look at the reef for a change and bear the full brunt of this assault on the senses!
We return to base and arrange to get back in after 60 minutes and accordingly, after hot drinks we are back on board for a trip around the corner.
Dive #32 Mainit School
Nudi overload, just the two of us plus our guide on this haven for nudibranchs and this dive did not disappoint.
Lots to see and they were all out posing just for us!
After the dive it’s a ten minute boat ride back to base and now we are all rinsed, dried and at the bar discussing our exploits
You know the kind of thing, “there I was, no shit, at 40m, raging current, just me and the nudi”
We meet Michael from Pittsburg and discuss dive destinations world wide. Comforting to note that despite diving in places like Raja Ampat and Misool, he still comes back to Anilao every year.
Dinner is fish in red sauce, vegitable chop suey and fried rice, yum.
Oh, and we also started to learn some Tagalog. So far we can do good morning, afternoon and evening as well as thank you.