Another new phase of our adventure begins today as Darral and Dianne arrived from Adelaide last night and will be joining us on the boat until we leave.
Another flat day with the promise of sunshine (I say promise because as I write this, the sun is rising on the other side of the Peninsula and we are currently in shade, just give it a while…)
Dianne was pleased to report that she had only bought 2kg of ‘sweeties’ for the boat, well, that should keep us going for a bit!
Today’s breakfast (for those keeping an interest!) was scrambled eggs and cooked sliced ham, and very nice it says too.
Dive #37
Agahuta
Another dive on this slope of coal outcrops descending to a flat seabed of sand and more corals, lots of nudi action including a nice Flabelina towards the end of the dive.
Back on the boat it’s lolly time courtesy of D&D. We spend the surface interval talking to them and two other divers that were diving previously with Romnick, they are Mike and Daniel (spelling) from Denver, Colorado.
The boat moves to Minilog for the next dive.
Dive #38
Minilog
Another dive on this site where there is much do see including one of those giant nudi’s that look like a generous portion of pink broccoli!
Back to base for a lunch of B.L.T. and vegetable curry, yum!
After another dip in the pool (scorchio again today) and some photo work it’s time to head out for the afternoon dive.
Dive #39
Apols Point
This is one of the most colourful dive sites you could ever imagine with featherstars of all imaginable colours (and some unimaginable) are on plentiful display. We hung around for some nudi action for a while when from nowhere, a huge current fish shows up. We make our way (with the current!) to a more secluded part of the reef where our guide Nanni finds a tiger shrimp (one of our current favourite targets). Jo is first in but the tiger shrimp is having none of it, it won’t sit still and continously gallops towards Jo so Nanni had to carefully scoop it up and re position it continuously.
By the time I get to have a go, the thing is set on escaping so our time together is short.
Thankfully we both managed to grab a decent shot before Nanni returned it to it’s lair.
We head back to land for a quick hor drink before it’s time to head back out for the dusk/night dive.
Dive #40
Mainit School night dive
This is a lovely site featuring coral outcrops on a slope which leads down to a sandy bottom. Plenty of opportunity to spend time with the subjects and really work on getting a good result.
There is plenty to see including Coleman shrimps riding on sea urchins and nudi’s galore, an excellent and super enjoyable dive.
We head back to base for a quick rinse, drink at the bar and dinner which tonight consisted of baby back ribs, fries and Coleslaw. Very nice of was too.
We also chatted with an American couple who met in Las Vegas as partners in an annual ballroom dancing competition. Met in Las Vegas? Sounds familiar!
We head back to the room, Jo sorts out the keepers from today’s crop and then we both pass out and recharge for the next days water based fun.
We still have 5 diving days left, that’s 20 dives, I feel like we are going to need a holiday to get over this adventure!