Dive Day #18
Well, it was inevitable, the last diving day has finally arrived 🙁
Sunshine outside with a slight breeze though yesterday there was talk of high winds that would impose certain restrictions on where we could dive. Here the coastguard plays an active part in all boating activities. Each morning they collect completed paperwork for each boat, check the list of divers and crew and film each boat departing!
Off to breakfast shortly before we commence the last dives of the trip.
At breakfast it’s Bacon Day!!!
Dive #63 Elmers Point
After a brief trip around to secret bay to see the coastguard we search for a site with no current and end up at Elmers Point, milky at the surface due to earlier surge, the descent to 18m seemed to go on forever though it cleared by the time we got to the seabed.
Various critters found as we moved between the coral outcrops. By the end of the subs the vis had sorted itself out at the surface. Phew!
Dive #64 Twin Rocks
After the surface interval (fuelled by coffee, Oreos and sweets) we jump on at Twin Rocks where a Turtle is munching it’s way through the soft corals.
Lots more to see on this dive as we bimble around spotting nudi after nudi as well as other critters.
At the end of the dive we make the the short trip back to base for lunch, I had salt and peppee squid, very lovely.
Dive #65 Olympic
On the way across to this site we loaded through a shower of rain which has ceased by the time we arrived.
Our penultimate dive of the trip, this is a flat bottomed rubble area dive, the rubble is in fact just small coral and rocks.
Various nudi’s and shrimp present themselves asking the way including a mahoosive monster nudi trying so hard to look like a piece of coral.
After the dive we make our way a short distance to the south for our next dive, before which we dine one final time on Oreos and coffee.
Dive #66 Minilog
We start this dive at the opposite end to that which we usually do, it’s getting towards the end of the day and it’s quite dark but still plenty to see including a collection of cinderella nudi’s, always good for a picture, large pink bodies and bright yellow gills.
As we get towards the surface we can see that it’s raining quite heavily. When we do break the surface it’s a lot warmer in the water than out though we cant stay in, diving is done, it’s all over, time to get back to base.
On the way back, multiple towels keep us cosy and before too long we disemvark for the last time.
At the bar we commiserate with our friends who are leaving a day or so after us and then head off to dinner such was a lovely combination of Tuna Sisig, vegitables in coconut milk and rice, all very nice.
It’s still raining so we take our wages dive gear back to the room where magically, overnight, the air con (which we barely have on) managed to remove all the water from it. Handy!