Dive day #15 – Buceo
Flat calm again here although not as sunny as yesterday.
Breakfast is done early followed by camera stuff.
Got bitten over night by a mosquito, the first one of the holiday. It’s hot and swollen. Will arrange for housekeeping to spray the room today.
I have an ongoing issue. I can’t seem to put my wetsuit on before I put my boots on. This has happened almost every day since we started to use our wetsuits. I am now putting my boots out of the immediate vicinity to make sure that I don’t keep making the same mistake. It shouldn’t be this complicated!
The sun came out! That’s nice!
Dive #51 – Elmer’s Point
Depth 21 metres / time 80 mins / temp 28 degrees
Beautiful dive site. Going down in steps to about 18 metres then sandy with coral outcrops.
We saw a candy crab in soft coral, various nudis, shoals of yellow snappers, many thousands of red tooth triggerfish. We also saw an unusual nudi, one that Nani hadn’t seen before, tiny brown with white rhinophores.
We enjoyed the sunshine during the interval whilst listening to the music from Planet Dive.
Dive #52 – Twin Rocks
The twin Rocks end on the block end.
Depth 24 metres / time 78 mins / temp 28 degrees
Very relaxed dive. Bumbled along at about 18 metres until we got to the Twin Rocks where we turned round and made our way back to the boat.
We saw shrimps on wire coral, three spiky black nudis in some broken cup coral, and a flabellina.
We get back to Buceo and go for a dip in the pool before our lunch of pork schnitzel with coleslaw.
Dive #53 – Sun View
Depth 23 metres / time 76 minutes / temp 29 degrees
A slope with small coal outcrops and lots of soft corals.
We saw pygmy seahorse, numerous flabellinas, many other nudis.
We are changing boat for the next dive as our boat buddies are going off to do the mandarin fish dive.
Coffee and skyflakes to fill in the time.
Dive #54 – Heidi’s Point
Depth 22 metres / time 71 minutes / temp 28 degrees
Sandy slope in the dark.
We had a lovely dive. The highlight of which was the Shawn the sheep slugs.
We saw five Shawn the sheep slugs, soft coral crabs, hermit crabs.
We still have a resident, giant gecko in the room. I saw it scuttle under one of the spare beds. The same bed that the giant spider is under. Either there will be one over stuffed gecko or one over stuffed spider. I hope the gecko wins!
Having a Royal at the bar before dinner.
Dinner of pancit canton for me and pork sizing and fried rice for Richard.
Cameras, photos and bed.