The view from the balcony is looking pretty good…
Up early and down for breakfast at 6.30. Eggs and bacon for me today, with watermelon juice, the best.
A little camera work before getting ready to go diving.
Quite boat today as Darral and Dianne are going home. We have Tim from Singapore and his guide, Elmer, on the boat with us today. A trip out to one of the furthest dives…
Red Rock
This site when there is no current has to be one of my very favourites anywhere in the world! Amazing dive! Clear water and no current! So much to take pictures of and on such a beautiful site. I love mushroom coral and saw a tiny fish sitting on one.
The surface interval was filled with coffee, Oreos and sweeties. Darral and Dianne left the spare sweeties with us to take on the boat each day. We took a slow journey to bubbles.
Bubbles
This site is also becoming a firm favourite! We went out to the wall from the east side rather than the normal west side. Lots to see and take photos of.
Back at the resort, we had our last lunch with Darral and Dianne, followed by sad goodbyes, before they left at 2pm.
As they left, we got our boat to go diving. We have brought forward our afternoon diving and by only doing an hour surface interval means that we have finished our diving by 5.30pm. This allows us some extra time in the evening and allows Nanni, Wendel and Saldy to go home earlier. We are diving for 15 days and feel if you can do these little things, it can help them. Of course, if we have other divers on the boat then this probably wouldn’t happen.
We did Sun View first. I slope with small coral outcrops and rubble. Nicely positioned nudis and shrimp in featherstar. Richard has camera issues so returned to boat for some camera fiddling. Whilst looking at the shrimp below, Richard and Nanni had a very close encounter with a large turtle. So close,that instead of the turtle going overhead it swam straight into Nanni’s head then kick Richard on the head. Oops…
Second dive was Arthur’s Rock. We went down the slope, along the wall, over the top where the current was strong so we went with it. The boat collected us.
We had cocktails at the bar followed by Bico Express, lumpia and fried rice.
So what did we do with our extra hours and a half? Well, we were asleep by 8pm, so not much!!