Another gloriously flat calm day with not even a ripple on the water right now (but it is only 05.24 and still mostly dark). You can hear the occasional tiny wave crash into a few pebbles though this is mostly drowned out by the cockerels who clearly have something very important and very detailed to discuss 🐓
Who will be on the boat? Where shall we go? What shall we see?…. All will be revealed….
After dining on eggs, sausage and other breakfast related items we head out to dive Daryl Laut (current at Kirbys Rock) and have the entire site to ourselves, very nice.
Nudi’s and Christmas Tree worms kept us busy!
After the dive we head over to Agahuta for the second dive and work out our surface interval there dining on the usual coffee and oreos though this time we have some freshly cooked pre ripe bananas (still warm), yum, thank you Saldy for cooking them.
The dive at Agahuta was full of things to see including various tiny fish posing on plant life and a plethora of Nudi’s including another psychedelic nudi, doubling my personal number of sightings to two.
Back to base and the resort is warm and mostly deserted as we are first back. It’s just Jo and myself on our boat (luxury!) the turn around time is quite quick and no time is wasted!
Today’s lunch consisyed of B. L. T. For Jo whilst I went off piste once more and had Pancit Behon with chicken – awesome!
That was a nice lunch!
14.00 and we’re back on the boat heading over to Mainit West, a good 30 seconds boat ride.
We drop in on slope with rocks. Sand and coral outcrops on the west side of the southern most tip of land in the area. Again, much to see and once more we are dive bombed by a turtle 🐢🤣
We see many slugs including some Beautiful Risbecia (in abundance) and all the usual suspects.
Back on the boat we make our way the short distance to Heidi’s Point for the last dive of the day. We moor up and then sit out the surface interval, drinking coffee and finishing off the oreos and the sweets that Darrell and Dianne left with us.
The hour is up and we drop in on the sandy slope and end up spending time with shrimps, crabs, octopus, frog fish and Lemon Blennies.
We’re out of the water by 17.30 and back at base less than 10 minutes later for washing, drinks and dinner.
I go for my new favourite cocktail ‘Amaretto Sour’ and Jo has her favourite ‘Mango, Banana and Malibu’.
Dinner consists of Fried Lumpia followed by shrimp soup. The soup is actually a broth packed with large prawns and vegitables, yum.