It rained last night.
It really rained.
I actually turned the light on in the room as it sounded like a waterfall coming through the ceiling. Everything was dry, thank goodness.
Richard slept through it.
Alarm went off at six.
Early start, setting up cameras first. Everything went well. We remembered everything, which is always nice.
Breakfast was good, as always. Eggs, various from the egg station, with melon juice.
Here is the view from our table…
This morning just us with Nanny and Jiu Ling, from Singapore, with Dood, on the boat.
On the way out to the first dive, it rained. Hard and sideways! Completely soaked. Didn’t matter as we were going to get wet any way…
Dive #1
First dive was Kirby’s Rock. The water was so warm. 29 degrees.
We stayed on the top part of the wall and then on to the slope on the other side. We finished, doing our safety stop on the top of the pinnacle.
Lovely first dive, saw frogfish, nudis, shrimps.
Won’t mention the camera issues that Richard had, as they were basically user error.
It had stopped raining by the time we finished the dive. Short trip to Agahuta, where we spent our surface interval.
That made it snack time! Coffee, Oreos and bananas. Nice!
Dive #2
Agahuta
Very relaxing dive. A bimble in the shallows and on the coral covered slope. Sun came out at the end. Nice!
We saw a psychedelic nudi, Richard’s favourite. The very photogenic grey/silver nudi. Long thin red and white spotty snail. Shrimp in bubble coral.
Sat in the sunshine on the way back. It was lovely and warm.
That made it lunchtime! BLT and fries for me, whilst Richard had Kinilaw na Tanigue, raw fish with vinegar, ginger, finely diced onion, cucumber and chilli.
Sun was still out so we sat on our balcony in the new, really comfortable chairs, drifted off very briefly.
Before we knew it, it was time to go diving.
Dive #3
Coconut Point
Sandy slope with a black coral garden at about 17 metres.
We saw shaun the sheep slugs, seahorses, dragon shrimp, zebra crab on a fire urchin. A cuttlefish, giving it all that.
Good dive.
Back to the resort for our surface internal. More coffee and hot chocolate.
Rain, but still nice and warm.
Dive #4
Dusk Dive on Manit Corner
This is a brilliant dive site both during the day and at night. A coral covered rocky peninsula.
We saw lots. Big fat slugs, green and orange stripes, green stripes, and green spots. Lots of other nudis. Beautiful cup coral, yellow, green and brown. Massive slug at the end, brown, about the shape and size of a dinner plate.
After a quick shower, time for a drink at the bar. Richard had a red horse and I had a fruity cocktail, containing Malibu, pineapple and orange juice.
Dinner was tuna sisig (hot), a new pork and tofu dish (hot) and fried rice. Lovely. Richard didn’t have the mango float that was on offer, maybe tomorrow.
Camera stuff, pictures on to laptop and blog, shortly followed by sleep.
Just heard on the dive group WhatsApp that today the club has had the best dive of the year. I think that we can say the same. 😊😊
So nice to be back.