Well, it looks like another beautiful day!
Sun and flat seas.
The day started with breakfast and camera stuff.
We headed out to Red Rock again but alas the current stopped play.
Dive #49
Manit school
Lovely relaxing dive. We moved very little. Lots to take pictures of.
We saw shrimp on wire coral, a spattering of nudis.
Dive #50
Chatting with Raute, our lovely German night diving buddy, and I find that she lives in Vienna, as she is Austrian! Oops!
Manit West
We did this dive more on the wall to the north of the site. Lots to see including huge anemones with anemone fish, eggs and porcelain crabs. Small white painted frogfish which was walking about whilst fishing.
Lunch- BLT and carbonara
Nap then diving again
Dive #51
Twin Rocks
Awesome dive. Shortly after we got in we were surrounded by schooling Jacks. So amazing.
Further into the dive I was surrounded by Barracuda. So much fish life on the dive.
We also saw many white anemones, some huge some small, all with Nemo hiding in them. A pink nudi and different shrimps on wire corals.
And of course, we saw the Twin Rocks. Two pinnacles with a gap of about 1 and 2 metres. Festooned with life.
On a surface interval now, discussing all that we have seen. We write about the stuff we take pictures of, but there is so much more. All the reefs are festooned with life. There are so many different dive sites, all with so much life on it. The rocks are encrusted with different colours, then the life on top of that, and the life that lives within that life. Amazing!
Surface interval, back at the resort, was very international. Chatting to two German couples (we think) and Ivan from the Czech Republic.
The view from the boat just before we went in was beautiful and a photo will follow.
Dive #52
El Pinoy night dive
Well they can’t all be your favourite dives can they?
This is a lovely site, large coral outcrops at the top, then sand, then rubble. Not so lovely in the dark, at 18 metres, in a particularly fast current when you are out on the rubble. Would say there wasn’t any current when we went in.
Fastest current of the holiday.
I feel that I have earned my tea.
Dinner is Shanghai rolls, chop suey and fried rice.
Camera stuff and bed.