So, day five…
Not raining this morning. In fact, a little spot of blue was seen in the sky. Turns out that this was not an indication of the weather for the rest of the day…
More camera pump shenanigans this morning. Richard bought a new battery from the shop, as both of the two batches of batteries that we had with us, could be faulty…🤔🤔🤔
Apart from that the day started off as the previous four; camera stuff, breakfast and diving.
Dive #17
Koala
This site is the furthest north that we go. Lovely dive, very pretty, coral slope and sand below with a beautiful peninsula.
Onshore wind caused some swell and wavy on top
We saw lots, slugs, shrimps, small green frogfish and lots of Christmas tree worms.
Surface interval! Grrrrrrrr!
What is it with smokers? Within 30 minutes of surfacing this couple had two cigarettes each, with no regard for which way the smoke was blowing! We moved to the front of the boat and into the sun. Please note that word… Sun!
Dive #18
Arthur’s Wall
Lovely dive, did make it to the wall but spent very little time on it as there was so much else to see. I nipped off at one point to swim around a beautiful pinnacle. I swam through a cloud of hatchet fish. Excellent.
Lunch – BLT and carbonara
Got this morning’s pictures off the cameras.
Then a nap for an hour or so.
Dive #19
Heidi’s Point
Muck dive on a sandy slope
We saw lots of critters including a very tiny Shaun the sheep slug.
Our surface interval was spent chatting to an older Texan guy, who had lots of experience, now retired he spends his time helping at his local dive shop, servicing gear.
It was pouring with rain.
Dive #20
Twin Rocks
Night dive
This is one of our favourite night dive sights. Giovanni and Christian went in on the house reef again, looking for hairy shrimp, which they found. The boat moved up the coast for about five minutes and we got in.
We saw fish in whip coral, nebrotha slug, shrimps lots of yellow cup coral and a blue shrimp on a blue starfish.
We came up from the dive and it was absolutely bucketing down.
Dinner was something new… Mixed seafood (prawns in shells, muscles in shells, calamari and fish) in red sauce with ginataang gulay (vegetables in coconut milk) and fried rice. Delicious!!
Lights off at 9pm!