Dive Day #8
We head down for an early breakfast and we greet our friends Darrall and Dianne from Adelaide. With Brendan and Vicki from Melbourne, we are now six.
That being said, due to various coughs etc, it’s just Jo and I on the boat this morning though we are joined by Marrianne from Germany for the morning.
For breakfast, a couple of fried eggs along with a sandwich of ham and cheese (you know, the triangles!).
Dive #23 Kirbys Rock
A lovely current free dive on the rock where a lot of time was spent with the pygmy seahorse and various other critters at depth so before long we needed to shallow up and avoid deco.
On the boat it’s time for coffee and orios as we head over to ‘olympic’ for our second dive.
We anchor up and wait for the surface interval to complete.
Dive #24 Olympic
We set nannies the objective of finding Tiger shrimp on this dive and just before the end, he delivered. Well done indeed. Now if only the little bugger would keep still I might just get a picture of it.
No, it’s sole intention was to scramble back down the slope at speed making portrait photography a little challenging, I clicked away regardless.
Now back to base for a lunch of Kinilaw La Tinigui, raw tuna with ginger and chilli. Awesome!
After a bob in the pool I’m sitting on the balcony writing this and waiting for afternoon dive which we bought forward an hour from 3.00pm to 2.00pm.
Dive #25 Bubbles
Never has the vis been quite so good on this dive as it was today. What is usually dark and intimidating was today bright and highly visible. That being said, only a few of the regular nudi’s showed up today. Then at the end of the dive by the boat, the current fish swam by.
After the surface interval (fuelled by oreos and coffee) we get back in at The next site.
Dive #26 Twin Rocks
We didn’t go far but we saw plenty including well positioned nudi’s and an entire family of large octopus – three of them!
Another lovely dive on our second day here in Anilao.
Apparently it had a shot of just about everything!
Tonight’s dinner consisted of sweet&sour chicken, vegitable chop suey and rice, a good combination.
It looks like the move from 3 to 4 dives a day is taking its toll as I might just have dozed off a little at dinner!