Dive day #5
Up at 6am, with less sleep than the previous nights, but so worth it. The blackwater dive was amazing, I have never experienced anything like it. Get in and choose your depth and off you go. Nanni was brilliant, like a comforting blanket and of course spotting creatures. We will be doing more.
After breakfast of egg in toast for both of us we head to the camera room for finalising the preparations for this morning’s dive.
This is the view from the boat this morning. Nice!
Dive #17
Kirby’s Rock
27.7 metres / 60 mins / 27 degrees
We go in to the left of the dive site and swim across. We head out to the pinnacle, the top of the pinnacle is about 18 metres. The outside goes down to 40 metres. We swim around that for a bit and then head towards the wall, where we have a rummage around at the bottom of the wall.
The boat has moved and we get out at the top of the wall to avoid swimming against the current.
We saw a white leaf fish, nudis, and beautiful topography.
We head off to Aguhuta for our surface interval. Sunny now, a beautiful day
Dive #18
Aguhuta
21.6 metres / 74 mins / 28 degrees
Top of the reef is at about 5 metres then a slope until about 20 metres, then sand.
Had a close encounter with a large turtle while Richard was taking pictures of a psychedelic slug.
Later on, I moved in to take a picture of a wire coral shrimp on a wire coral, just as a school of poisonous catfish barrel through. Devastation! Sand everywhere! Grrrr!
Very relaxing dive.
Surfaced to clouds, wind and waves. That was unexpected. Would have taken a view from the boat but it was too tough and too much spray coming into the boat.
Back at Buceo, for lunch of BLT and pancit canton.
The time between lunch and the third dive was spent sorting through yesterday’s photos that didn’t get looked at. That took quite a while.
Dive #19
Bubbles
22.6 metres / 61 mins / 28 degrees
A little bouncy on top. We had to go round to the windward side of the peninsula as there was current on our side.
Coral outcrops leading to a wall.
One of Richard’s favourite sites. Viz was down a bit. We went straight down to the area that normally has a large amount of nudis, and today it didn’t disappoint.
We saw flabellinas, Janulos bubble slug, many others that we don’t know the names of.
The surface interval was spent in the lounge area, drinking coffee, or hot chocolate for those that could.
Dive #20
21.6 metres / 60 mins / 28 degrees
Secret Bay night dive
A sandy slope
Lots to see including a blue ring octopus, shrimps on wire coral, three separate beautiful risbecia.
A drink at the bar, chatting with Dude, Hans-Peter, Nicole and Christian.
Dinner was chicken adobo and pancit canton (egg noodles) with vegetables.
Sleep for Richard and Photo work for me.