Dive Day #9
Tired today. When we do the black water diving in the evening, I don’t get to sleep until about 11 o’clock, so only seven hours of sleep. I need more than that.
Another calm day, and we are starting with sunshine, which is nice. Every day Christian has said tomorrow will be sunny. It appears that yesterday he was correct. Nice!
I have been struggling with an outer ear infection, doesn’t stop me equalizing but it has been very painful. The other divers on our boat have been extremely helpful. The first offer of medicine I received was from Nicole, although Zainib also offered, as did a lovely Egyptian man from a different boat. Anyway, this is the medication that I am using and my ear is on the mend.
At the dive centre, the camera housings are predominantly black, as Nauticam takes over the world.
Dive #33
Gasang Pink House
20.4 metres/ 66 mins / 27 degrees
Sandy slope.
For all the bad things we say about this site, we had a lovely dive. This site is good as long as there is no current.
We saw flamboyant cuttlefish, tiny red frogfish, various flabellinas, arrow crab and shrimps on coral.
We also saw lots of divers, looking for the flamboyant cuttlefish.
Surface interval entertainment was supplied by Christian and his drone. Sun was still shining. Nice!
So since Han-Peter left, we have Hu on the boat. Hu has previously dived with Jimson and wanted to again. Jimson looks after him. He is quiet, possibly doesn’t speak much English.
Dive #34
Manit School
25.0 metres/ 70 mins / 27 degrees
Love this dive site.
Corals down to about 20 metres then Sandy bottom.
We saw some tiny white with yellow edge nudis, Donald Duck shrimp, red shrimp on the red wire coral.
Back to Buceo for lunch. BLT for me and carbonara for Richard. Nice!
Photo work that didn’t get done last night.
Dive #35
Arthur’s Wall
22.5 metres/ 67 mins / 28 degrees
We had a lovely dive. The wall is beautiful and lots of corals and soft corals on top
We saw a dragon shrimp on the bottom of the wall, various nudis and Christmas tree worms.
The surface interval was spent in the patio area drinking coffee, hot chocolate and eating biscuits.
Dive #36
Secret Bay night dive
21.6 metres/ 71 mins / 28 degrees
Sandy slope.
We saw a single blue ring octopus, a coconut octopus, beautiful risbecia, a tiny red frogfish and various other critters.
We meet at the bar for a cocktail before we have dinner of aubergine omelette thing that was delicious, with fried rice and a deep fried lumpia (vegetable spring roll).
Fell asleep before nine o’clock, leaving Richard to do some photos work. Result!