Dive Day #11
Looking good out there today…
So, Ronnie, from the dive centre is my Tagilog teacher, and now I can say good morning, good noon, good afternoon, good evening, how are you and I am good. I am a bit of a slow learner as he is teaching me for three holidays now. In his spare time, although he doesn’t seem to have much spare time, he paints fins. So, I thought I would have mine done…
Pictures here of fins
We say goodbye to Nicole and Christian today, as they return home to Switzerland. We have had fun.
On our boat today, there is us and Zainib with Nanni and Hu with Jimson. We head off to Kirby’s Rock.
Dive #41
26.5 metres / 57 minutes / 28 degrees
Kirby’s Rock
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We spent time on the bottom at the base of the wall, then over to the pinnacle, then back to the base of the wall.
Coming to the surface, the boat had moved. It appeared that Jimson and Hu came up on the other side of the wall.
We saw nudis of various shape, colour and size, a leaf fish and of course the amazing scenery.
We moved further along the coast to Kaban Cove for our surface interval. We chatted to Nanni about all sorts of things, including children’s expectations of Christmas, which of the sites were his favourite (Mainit Corner even though the typhoons have done some damage and PADI versus BSAC decompression views.
Dive #42
22.9 metres / 70 minutes / 28 degrees
Kaban Cove
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Very relaxed dive. In the cove the bottom was at about four metres then a rubble covered slope.
We saw a grey frogfish, a stonefish, a pretty pipefish, nudis and some bright orange snails.
Back at Buceo for lunch, BLT and carbonara, followed by camera stuff, blogging and sitting on our balcony relaxing.
Dive #43
23.5 metres / 67 minutes / 28 degrees
Koala
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At the beginning of the dive we had a little stress. One of my strobes wouldn’t turn on, even though I had it checked twice. Richard wasn’t happy with how I was dealing with it, so he took over. He passed me his camera (very heavy underwater), took mine and gave the strobe a bit of a bash. Hey presto! All fixed. This was followed by Richard passing me back my camera and I passed him his… Or so I thought… It descended to the reef with a crash! Oops!!
A beautiful reef. Basically, we bimbled along to the point we found current and then bimbled back.
We saw a grey frogfish, feeding mackerel, various nudis, emporer shrimps on a sea cucumber and tiny orange sea squirt.
Surface interval back at Buceo, coffee, hot chocolate and biscuits.
We even saw the sunset…
A little bumpy on the trip round to Secret Bay.
Dive #44
22.5 metres / 66 minutes / 28 degrees
Secret Bay
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Sandy slope.
The first 15 minutes of the dive were a bit dull, but after that we saw lots of stuff. Everywhere you looked, you could see the reflection of shrimp eyes.
The best bit was a tiny yawning red frogfish. Got a picture!
We saw lots of shrimps and nudis.
Even bumpier (some would say rough) when we got out.
At the bar before dinner.
Dinner tonight was salt and pepper deep fried pork belly, coleslaw and fries.