Dive Day #14 – Buceo Anilao – Richard
It’s early O’Clock but the cockerels are quite active and waking me up, perhaps there should be more chicken in the menu ????
Our guide Nanie returns today and we should be diving the next four days with him. It’s time to start thinking a bit about the sites that we have not visited yet like Agahuta, Mainit School, Mainit West And Elmer’s point.
So fast we’ve seen lots of new stuff this trip, perhaps it’s the weather, perhaps the guides have been honing their skills, how on earth do they spot these things??? Regardless, it’s all good news for us.
It’s currently flat outside with a gentle breeze, let’s hope that stays the same!
Today at breakfast it’s Spam Day so Spam with cheese omelette it is.
We head around to Secret Bay for Coastguard inspection before heading west again to Kirby’s Rock though half way there we divert to Agahuta as there is suspected current at Kirby’s and what a cracking dive it was!
Dive #47 – Agahuta
Depth 22 metres / time 78 minutes / 29 degrees
A splendid bimble in bright sunshine around another one of our favourite sites. No current fish anywhere, some nice shrimp on wire corals and a couple of psychedelic nudis make this a fabulous dive.
We spend the surface interval drinking coffee and eating biscuits and skyflakes, yum, then we move along the coast to the next site.
Dive #48 – Olympic
Depth 25 metres / time 73 minutes / 29 degrees
Another cracking dive on this site, highlights include Coleman shrimp and zebra crab on the fire urchins, a tiger shrimp and we’ll positioned yellow ribbon eel. We also saw a huge hermit crab dining on a small puffer fish that was no more.
Back at base we take a dip in the pool before a delicious lunch of BBQ pork and coleslaw. Dave invited us to try some ‘Green’ mango juice which was a properly tasty drink.
Next up: camera refresh then coffee on the balcony. Today’s sunshine, though not critical to the success of the adventure, is a welcome alternative to the overcast skies of late!
Diving again at three, hopefully headed around the corner to knock some of the remaining sites off the to-do list.
Dive #49 – Bubbles
Depth 25 metres / time 65 minutes / 28 degrees
This time we went straight to the wall in search of the elusive flabellina and, thankfully, after a brief period of time, Nanie found some, excellent.
After that there were a plethora of Beautiful Risbecia, everywhere you looked, all posing eating ‘look at me’!
Back to shore for the surface interval, hot drinks and Skyflakes before heading out for the last dive of the day.
Dive #50 – Mainit School
Depth 18 metres / time 84 minutes / 28 degrees
Lots of Nudi action here today on yet another of our favourite sites.
Back to the bar for Prinks where we are deep in discussion with our buddies from Oregon who lived in Alaska for many years. Extraordinarily interesting folk, life below zero and then some!
Dinner was a BLT with fries for Jo whilst I had salt and pepper grilled shrimp with vegetable chop suey, super yum!
Now we are waiting for our boat buddies from South Africa as it’s Jodie’s birthday today, 27, so young!
… And I’m told there is cake.
… But they got stuck at the bar (that happens a lot here!) so we retire!