After dealing with various emails we dive down to a breakfast of omlettes and spicy pork, yum.
Shocking news, someone was sat at our table, that’s not the kind of upset I need at this time of day, that needs to be sorted out!
Off to sort cameras shortly then the diving shall commence!
.. And so it did!
Dive #1, Bethlehem, this is a flat seabed full of coral rubble where everything hides. Many different nudi’s and the elusive Rhinopia were spotted.
My first dive with the snoot today, I am determined to master snoot ology!
We spend the surface interval on the boat drinking coffee and eating oreos, yum.
Dive#2 is at Olympic Point, another coral rubble area with all sorts of Nudi’s and other life including Coleman and Donald duck shrimps.
Back to base for spicy chicken curry and BLT – the chicken was a bit super spicy then back to the room to recuperate before the afternoons diving.
At three we head across to Apols Point, a particular favourite with amazing topography, all colours of feather stars. Essentially: plenty to see though I think it was the Nudibranchs that we focused on mainly (see what I did there?).
Also seen: large anemones with porcelain crabs.
After the dive we retire to the pool for hot drinks and biscuits before the night dive. We then head out to Siam Saim for the night dive. A sandy slope down to about 20m for fun and frolics with various critters including a tiny flamboyant cuttle and a bobit worm. Bobit worms are particularly nasty killing machines, thankfully they are only small themselves though I think they could still give you a fearsome bight.
For dinner it’s Lumpia followed by sweet and sour chicken, fried rice and vegitable chop suey. This time washed down with Pina Colada and Red Horse.
During dinner, plans were hatched to give Dave Santos (the manager) a bit of a break (because he never gets a holiday) so we are going to run the resort for a few weeks whilst he and his wife visit the UK and stay at our house. Everyone thought that this was an excellent idea, except for Dave who looked quite scared.
Then its back to the room for picture action!