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We find ourselves near the end of our adventure. All kit is washed and drying, bags are open and ready for the stuffing. We are well under our 80kg total allowance so plenty left for the two bottles of Dom Pappa (Google it) that we have secured during our stay.

Breakfast done, now chatting with boat buddies from Austria that we have dived with during our adventure. Next up, camera room for some packing prep, then packing the other stuff before we hit the pool for a bit of a bob.

So we bobbed, first in one pool and then in another, it must have been for the best part of an hour then we headed back to the room (which is a good 20 seconds away) to complete packing (didn’t take long) have a rinse (took even less time) then we sat on the balcony soaking up the warmth and the view as we knew that it would be quite some while before we would be able to do it again.

We decide to head down for our early lunch which is the usual B.L.T and Kinilaw na Tanigue and as it’s the last chance we go big and drink something other than water, a Royale for Jo and for me, no surprises, a Red Horse Beer.

Lunch done we nip into the office to settle our tab then it’s a few last goodbyes as our bags are loaded on to the boat to whisk us around the corner for the van pickup. We are joined in this short trip by Ernie, our driver and before long we are sat in a new Toyota van, heading north with the A/C set to max!

It’s Saturday and the traffic was surprisingly light and we arrive at the airport in just over 2hrs.

Not only that, we walk right up to the checkin desk, drop our bags, all in under 5 minutes.

We enter the queue for passport control where, all of a sudden, a group of us are redirected to the ‘crew’ section so we are through there in record time too.

The result of all this efficiency is that we are now in the departure area, it’s 15:45 and our boarding is around 18:15, so we have  two and a half hours to kill. My turn on the blog so blogging I am.

Currently, flights are on time, we have plenty of time to transfer in Abu Dabi so fingers are crossed for a timely arrival in the UK on Sunday morning.

Excitement mounts as it is now less than 60 minutes to boarding (in so easily excited). Our plane is in view and nothing unexpected had been announced, yet…

After what appeared to be a late departure we are fairly much on time for arrival which is handy as we have a little under two hours to transfer. An uneventful flight. Watched a few movies including the Barbie movie for the second time, ordinary angels and the new Wonka movie. I must had some sleep in there somewhere, 9hrs has just Kind of melted away.

We are scheduled to land at 11.48pm local time which is in about 44 minutes. Our second visit to Abu Dhabi this month!

As before I don’t think we’ll be taking in many of the cities highlights!

It’s been another epic adventure, 60 dives, over 70hrs under water (detailed statistics will follow obs.)

Old friendships rekindled, new friends made, met lots of interesting folk and a return trip already booked.

Oh, and we tried really really hard not too eat too much and most of the time, we succeeded. Bacon breakfast days were the exception to this 🥓🥓🍳🍳

Everything unpacked, all washing done, kit dried, some kit maintenance performed, all tested and ready for the next outing.

Our last diving day. It is always sad but we have done lots of diving and taken lots of pictures.

Calm but slightly hazy.

We both opted for fried eggs this morning.

Dive #57

Sombrero

Wow! What a site! This is the most beautiful coral garden we have dived. Just beautiful.

I spent quite a while with an octopus whilst it was trying to eat its lunch.

We also saw, amazing corals, candy crab, a very nicely positioned nudi, shrimps on wire coral.

Bit of a swim back to the boat which allowed us to overlook the garden. Again wow!!

Dive #58

Elmas Point

A coral peninsula. A bit of current but not too much. Very relaxing.

We saw shrimps on wire coral, a couple of the bright pink nudis. A monster turtle having a nap. A very large banded sea snake out on the hunt.

Back at the resort for battery change and shared a portion of fries for lunch.

Doing a one o’clock dive then the three o’clock dive. That will then be it. 😔

Dive #59

Bubbles

Had a bit of a bimble about. We went out to the wall but there was quite a bit of current there so we headed back in. Lovely relaxing dive. The bubbles at the end were amazing. Like diving in a glass of lemonade.

Had a dip in the pool between dives.

Dive #60

Coconut Point

A muck dive on a sandy slope. We were shallow, in warm water, the sun was shining and we had nowhere to go in a hurry. A very relaxed dive

We saw a two blue and yellow Shaun the sheep slugs on a leaf (about 5mm each), a red hairy shrimp (about 2mm). Such excitement!

A really great last dive of a really great holiday.

Fabulous.

So that is it. No more.😔😔

We are so thankful to Nanny for diving with us and the boat crew for looking after us so well. Joey, as captain, with Tobi, as crew, and also Kelvin who was with us in the first week.

Went to the bar to see the sun go down.  Joanne made me a mango margarita, boy the was strong, heavy on the alcohol whilst Brian’s were heavy on the fruit. Chatted with Jorge and Katerina, a lovely German/Swiss couple, whilst the rest of our boat buddies went for a night dive. Nanny too.

It would appear that two lumpia plus tuna sisig, fried rice and mango and cucumber salad was way too much food!

Another Maganda (beautiful) morning here in diving paradise, marred only by the fact that it is our penultimate diving day 😔

The sun is out, it’s already scorchio and the sea is so flat that the occasional white fluffy clouds are reflected in the mirror like surface.

Egg on toast for breakfast with fresh fruit juice cocktail of mango and banana (which explains why there are no bananas on offer, we usually liberate a couple for morning boat snacks so today we shall rely on the Oreo to do that!)

No idea where we are going today though I am confident that wherever it is, it will be great. Let’s sea (see what I did there?)

Dive #53 Dari Laut

What a most excellent dive. There is a new mooring right next to the wreck so as soon as we jumped, there it was. I headed down to the deepest part of the wreck site where a lot of nudi action is to be found.

There are bat fish that swim around that section and before long (thanks Nani) there was a perfect specimin presenting itself to be photographed.

After that, a colourful flatworm and other nudies as well as a colourful frog fish all gagging to be photographed.

An Anilao Sea Dragon was also spotted. It all sounds very grand but I think the use of the term “dragon” is enthusiastic to say the very least. I did get a picture though I’m sure Jo’s will be better, she was pleased that she got the eye in focus. Me “It had an eye?!?”

We’ve moved over to Minilog for the surface interval where coffee and Oreos have been consumed.

Now, we still have 30 minutes to wait until the next dive…..

Dive #54 Minilog

Lots to see here, that big pink nudi with yellow gills, albeit not so well positioned this time. The orange “criss cross” nudi, a pair of the darker orange and black “criss cross” nudi’s. Some shrimp and other stuff.

Back at base it’s time for lunch. Whilst Jo sticks with tradition, I went for a bit of a treat abs had the salt and pepper prawns and they were absolutely lovely, so good, heads, tails and all, served on a bed of onion and chilli with boiled rice on the side, I totally recommend this combo. I made the whole lot disappear, yum.

Dive #56 Apols Point

Dived this slightly differently this time by heading east first and then turning west to circle the point before heading back up.

Some nudi and crab action to keep us busy and then we are at the sea fan with the pygmy seahorse.

Nani and Jo had just started working on this picture, getting everything set right before taking the money shot when a guide from another boat turns up and asks our guide to point out said creature, at which point everything falls apart and the seahorse goes and hides.

Jo showed me some new signs, most of which I’d not seen underwater before. Back at the surface she reveals that she was that vexed that she could not pee underwater, something which we are both accomplished at as we both drink at least half litre of water just before the dive.

Does anyone know I.P. Freely?

After a break for coffee and Oreos (and off gassing) we head out for the night dive. We were heading towards secret bay then this happened:

Dive #56 Red Rock Night Dive

After failing to do this dive several times we finally get to do it and at night, awesome.

Back on dry land Jo celebrates this with a banana margareta, I stick with the ice cold Red Horse.

Dinner is a sticky affair involving ribs, fries and coleslaw and then it’s camera prep before we finally pass out!

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.

Another dry, flat and calm morning greets us today, time now to descend to breakfast to see what’s cooking, is today a bacon day I wonder?

.. And bacon day it is too! I’d like to say I showed reserve and helped myself to a modest portion of bacon, banana pancakes and eggs – but I can’t say that, and it was super good. They are highly skilled in the egg department here, whichever way you want them, they arrive perfect, yum!

I took a guess at the team shirt colour today and got it right, today is blue shirt day which is handy as I only have them in blue and yellow. Pink, purple, and white are also options, I have to go under cover on those days but today is all good, and, as deputy resort manager one has to adhere to standards and show a united front!

Off to the camera room next for pre dive shenanigans.

Close inspection of my backup strobe revealed what looked like water ingress in the battery holder, this is never a good thing!

It turned out to be just the failure and leakage of one of my chunesium batteries.

Took the thing apart, cleaned it all out, tossed the battery and fitted a new one, all good. Take whatever moral you wish!!!!

Jo has also rebuilt the mounting system for her underwater close up adapters on her mask. The resolution involved some dexterity with small rubber bands!

Dive  #45 Bethlehem (opposite, on the smaller island)

One of the best and clearest dives on this site in a long while. You could see from one side to the other and a long way up and down the channel.

Plenty of nudi action to behold, bright sunshine above and no current. Towards the end of the dive we found a bat fish being cleaned by cleaner wrasse.

Then back into the shallows for the safety stop before surfacing and getting back on board for breakfast #2 (coffee, oreos and bananas).

We are now anchored at Kirbys Point for the surface interval, let’s see if we end up diving here!

Dive #46 Layag Layag (at Kirbys Point!)

I know I’m probably sounding really boring now but this was yet another ab. Fab dive in Crystal clear warm water and sunshine. Highlights included a huge octopus, many nudi’s, some shrimp and some obliging crabs on an anemone.

The diving here is so easy, hassle free and visually stunning. This mornings two dives were most excellent, what a holiday!

Back at base we hear that others were cold on the dives this morning, and they were wearing wetsuits. I put it down to them being rake skinny, whereas we are in rash vests only, but we do have bioprene, which seems to help a lot!

After lunch we prep the cameras once more for the afternoon dive.

It’s scorchio scorchio today!

Dive #47 Koala

More nudi action here with a little current fish at the start though thankfully that eased off after a while.

At the end of the dive a Malibi nudi was spotted causing much excitement though I have to say, visually, not a stunner🤣

Back on dry land for a short spell with drinks and biscuits (cos we are so under nourished Not!)

Sunset dive next, where shall we go?

Well, as it happens we head out to Mainit School though when we arrive on site there is a bit of current so we divert to Mainit Corner which, curiously is not next to Mainit School!

Regardless, within minutes we are descending.

Dive #48 Mainit Corner

Lots to see as usual, highlight include a stone fish, nudi’s (regular and monster!) Another glorious dive on this spectacular site where we were joined once more by our German buddy Raute. She has joined us on a few night dives now.

As Jo has mentioned, we are trying hard to try the local language for greetings etc. Generally we are working in English, German and Tagalog, my brain needs a rest!!

It’s been an expensive day today as we have firmed up on some detail for our next trip, no prizes for guessing that includes a return to Anilao though it is bit exxlusively based there, more on that in some future post, let’s just say it’s going to be an expensive pizza!

Flat as a pancake out there…

Nice!

For breakfast, we forewent the eggs and opted for fried rice and chicken nuggets. Strange but satisfying.

We are really trying to blend in with the locals here, so we are learning the language… 😂🤣😂🤣😂

What we have so far is…

Magandang umaga – good morning
Magandang hapon – good afternoon
Magandang gabii – good evening

Also maganda means beautiful, so if you have been on a beautiful dive you say maganda dive.

Not currently up to the correct speed, so the equivalent in English that I am saying is gggoooooddd mmmooooorniiinnng.

Everyone here is being so supportive and helping me

I really am an international women of languages! This morning I responded Guten Tag to one of our boat buddies. When I was asked ‘wie hast du geschlafen?’ I responded ‘ja’, once she explained what she had said. Go me!

I’ve just Google translated ‘how are you?’in Tagalog. The result was ‘kumusta ka?’ so I will try that when we go to the dive centre. Problem is that if they reply, I won’t know if they are responding to my question or if they are saying ‘mad English lady, I don’t know what you are saying!’

So I tried it out on Roly from the dive centre. It worked. The answer was ‘okay lang’ which means I am good. Another response could be ‘ayos lang’ which means I am okay. That seems the wrong way round to me but there it is.

We headed around the corner to Secret Bay where the coastguard comes to check on us, as they do each morning. Then off to Red Rock…

Dive #41

Bubbles

Too much current at Red Rock so back to bubbles. Richard wanted to go out to the end of the wall at about 27 metres. Which we did and then bimbled back. Played hunt the buddy.

We saw a huge cuttlefish, about 18 inches long. Porcelain crabs, a pair of beautiful risbecia. A massive shoal of mackerel swimming back and forth.

Surface was rough, it was flat when we went in.

Much laughter, as Ingrid did acrobatics to do a wee over the side of the boat.

During the surface interval, we moved around the corner to Twin Rocks. Moored north of the site with the view of being picked up at the rocks.

Dive #42

Twin Rocks north

Absolutely fabulous dive

The area under the boat was sand with lots of little coral outcrops. As we moved south the outcrops gradually increased in size. It was beautiful.

We reached the twin Rocks, two pinnacles, absolutely festooned with life.

We saw flabelinas, beautiful risbecia, a huge turtle, a couple of the pink Cinderella nudis. Shrimps and fish on wire coral. Shoal of barracuda.

Brilliant!

Lunch was a BLT and fish ceviche.

Camera stuff followed by a nap.

Dive #43

Manit West

Bumpy on top

Calmness and serenity beneath.

Raute joined us for this dive.

Such a relaxing dive. Quite a steep coral covered slope with a plateau on the top.

Lots of everything to see. Ribbon eels, small painted frogfish, porcelain crabs, an assortment of nudis.

As it was so hot and sunny, we spent our surface interval in the pool.

Dive #44

Arthur’s Wall night dive

Just us and Nanny on the boat. The German threesome did the House reef.

Had an annoying squeak in my regs for the first 25 mins of the dive, then it just cleared. Thank goodness.

We went to the wall and down to about 22 metres. A very beautiful wall. It felt very different at night, just us and Nanny.

Apart from the actual wall, we also saw various slugs, two very large crabs mating, although one didn’t seem so keen, and a shy cuttlefish.

A bit of current came up whilst we were on the wall.

A quick drink at the bar and then dinner of lumpia, sweet and sour chicken with fried rice. Yum!

Camera work and Richard had to do a little actual work before bed.

The story so far: it’s bright outside, little or no wind, sea is as flat as a Flat thing, coffee/lift has been consumed and it’s almost time to descend to breakfast!

Yesterday we met George and Katrina from Germany (I have assumed!) and they are joining us on the boat this morning. They seem (like most others here) to have gone to a lot of the places that we have but end up coming back here. We also met Michael J Fox (the real one, not the actor) from Pittsburg. He has a fireworks business in the states. I’m not sure how big it is but on July 4th they run about 1000 displays!

He seems to spend a lot of time here and in Indonesia, we also met  his partner Fay who is from Minado. In conversation it turns out that the locals crave a white skin whilst those with white skin crave a tan. “Half the world wants what the other half has!”

After a breakfast of spicy pork bits and eggs we head out for the first dive.

Dive #37 Koala

We went north this time instead of South. Had a bit of a current for about 10 minutes then it vanished.

Mostly nudi action on this dive ending up with what I am calling the “life” nudi (see the scifi film ‘Life’ and you will know why).

Back on board for coffee, Oreos and bananas all served with plenty of after dive chat. As we make our way over to where the second dive will be after 60 minutes on the surface.

Dive #38 Mainit Corner

Another awesome dive on this amazing site with plenty of nudi action where a sea snake and turtle joined in the fun.

Note to self, set camera ISO up two stops to ease burden on strobe battery.

Today for lunch we had B.L.T. And Kinilaw na Tanigue. The fish was amazing and I’m reliably informed that the B.L.T. was pretty good too!

Oh, now we need to choose dinner, an easy one today, Baby Back Ribs, Coleslaw and fries, one of our newly adopted combo meals (also an exercise in ordering less food!)

Dive #39 Elmers Point

This was a great dive on a hard sandy bottom with many coral outcrops hiding all sorts of Nudi’s including some bright pink ones with yellow gills.

We are mostly through the dive when Nanie (our guide) beats his cylinder enthusiasticly and with much repetition whilst pointing in a most asserted manner out in to the blue and swimming in the same direction with much viggor.

We follow suit and then we see it, the mother of all mantas cruising along in almost slow motion, awesome!

Well, we didn’t expect that!

No sooner had we clapt eyes on the thing, it was gone, out into the blue yonder.

We make our way back to the reef to complete our dive, after that, the small stuff seemed a little less significant, for a short while at least.

Dive #40 Mainit School

Another fab night dive on this site with wall to wall nudi action with a little shrimp on whip coral action thrown into the mix, absolutely lovely dive. I made the most of my 200 bar on this one.

Back on dry land, following  a quick rinse it’s off to the bar for prinks.

I was happy with the one Red Horse that was served nICE and cold but then I spotted Long Island Iced Tea was on the happy hour list and I could not resist, despite being in fear of losing the entire evening.

As it turned out, all was good, a dinner of baby back ribs, coleslaw and fries was enjoyed very much and I was able to contrubute to at least the first round of photo culling from the afternoons dives.

.. And so ends another fabulous day of diving in Anilao.

It’s not raining…

It’s not sunny…

It’s not windy…

It’s not wavy, in fact it is as flat as a dab…

All this could change in a blink of an eye.

Eggs and ham for breakfast.

Camera stuff. It has decided that Richard should take both snoots with him on night dives and low vis dives. One pointing out to allow me to know where he is and the other to use for taking pictures. He just needs to work out how to turn the other one on…  Oh, and to turn it off too!

On our boat today we are expecting Kelvin (captain also a dive ninja yesterday), Toby and Joey (crew), us with Nanny and the three quiet Germans with Romnick. Fresh meat has arrived so we could have others too.

Not so, Kelvin is having a day off. We had a new person for two days, Jeff from Colorado. Also, one of the German ladies isn’t diving today.

Dive #33

Daryl Laut

The casino wreck again. Love this dive. Richard spent time looking for nudis and I bimbled about.

I was quite intently looking at the wreck for small things when a turtle swam between me and the wreck! Then it started eating whatever it could.

We spend most of the surface interval at Kirby’s Point but as there was current we moved to the bigger island to Aguhuta.

Don’t want to say the ‘S’ word but there are less clouds in the sky… 🌞

Dive #34

Aguhuta

Coral slope and sand bottom at about 20 metres

Lots to see, all the usual suspects.

Lunch, BLT for me and bacon cheese burger for Richard.

Got the pictures off the cameras and had a nap after lunch

Just us this afternoon with the German couple and a snorkeller.

Dive #35

El Pinoy

Mainly a rubble area with sand and coral out crops in the shallows.

Lots of things to see. A mantis shrimp doing some housework. Two different types of soft coral nudis. Beautiful risbecia.

Surface interval back at the resort with time to catch up on blogging.

I think that might be a spot of rain…

For the dusk Dive it will be us and Nanny with Jeff from Colorado hopefully with Romnick…

… No Romnick 😔

Dive #36

Bubbles

Went through the bubbles to the wall. Spent time with the flabelinas. Also saw other nudis including a monster dinner plate size one, soft coral crab, cuttlefish and a large starry octopus. The octopus had reached up and was tugging on Nanny’s pointer which gave him a surprise as he hadn’t seen it.

Nanny left us on the wall when he took Jeff back to the boat. He then came back for us.

Vis wasn’t the best and a bit of current, going one way and then the other.

A quick chat with people at the bar.

Dinner of tuna sisig, mango and cucumber salad, and fried rice.

More picture stuff and blogging before bed.

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.

Up early as usual.

I thought I would really shake things up this morning… I forwent the fried eggs and opted for mashed banana and peanut butter on toast. I appreciate that this will set the proverbial cat amongst the proverbial pigeons but I thought it was rather good. Shame the Philippines’ peanut butter was packed full of sugar but it made a nice change.

It’s not raining at the moment…

It’s not windy either…

Dive #25

Kirby’s Rock

Lovely dive. The wall was beautiful as always but we basically ignored it. We went around the base looking for things to take pictures of. Moved up the slope on the other side and found some Christmas tree worms.

During the surface interval we stopped at Bethlehem village, where I hopped off to get a picture of the goats.

Then we moved to Olympic for the rest of our surface interval.

Everyone looks nice and warm…

Dive #26

Olympic

Thoroughly enjoyed this dive. Coral outcrops at the top and wobble lower down. Right at the beginning, I found an anemone with posing sexy shrimp. That was a good start.

We also saw lots of fire urchins with Coleman shrimps and zebra crabs. A fast running tiger shrimp, running straight for us.

The funniest thing was a cowfish deciding that Richard would make a nice home. It loved the leggings. I was laughing so much. After some time I managed to encourage it away with my hand, only for it to decide that my hand would be a nice home. Couldn’t stop laughing. Nanny built it a home and I encouraged it. So, all safe and sound.

Everyone is still looking toasty.

Dinner was good. BLT and spag bol.

No nap after lunch. Instead, I blogged and did pictures for the blog. See, not quite so useless.

Dive #27

Sun View

Incredibly fine sand on this slope with small outcrops. Touch the sand and you disappear in a puff of sand.

Vis was poor, down to a meter or two at times.

Lots to take pictures of though.

A quick turnaround as only us doing the last dive of the day. Back in the water at 5.10pm

Dive #28

Bubbles

Fabulous last dive of the day

Just us and Nanny on the dive site. Dark quite quick.

Lots to see. Lots to take pictures of.

A fair bit of current at the end.

Nice long dive 🤫🤫

Back at the resort before 6.45pm.

At the bar for a Royal and a couple of Red Horse.

Dinner was baby back ribs, coleslaw and fries. Absolutely delicious!

Camera stuff and bogging before bed.