Dive Day #15
Last diving day…
Rudely awoken today at 4.20… but I did manage to get back to sleep. Richard knows it’s best to let me sleep.
Breakfast was eggs… Again. Nice with the extras sprinkled on top.
Dive #57
Bethlehem, the other side.etres / mins / degrees
19.2 metres / 65 mins / 28 degrees
Spent the dive in the rubble at about 18 metres. The beginning of the dive was a bit slow but picked up with the sightings of all sorts of nudis. Nice to have a Coleman shrimp on a fire coral at the end of the dive, unusually, only one.
We saw, various nudis of various sizes, lots of fire urchins and a Coleman shrimp.
We moved to Aguhuta for our surface interval, where we chatted with Mirko and Babett, from Germany. We have met them in the restaurant at breakfast, next to the toaster but not really spoken to them. They were very entertaining.
Dive #58
Aguhuta
23.2 metres / 80 mins / 28 degrees
I love this site. The diving here is so relaxing. The top of the reef is at 5 metres and a gentle coral slope with a sandy bottom at about 20 metres.
We saw a red hairy shrimp, three bright red slugs on Spanish dancer eggs, a large cuttlefish, shrimps, nudis, a very close, very large batfish and thousands of red toothed triggerfish.
On the way back across to Buceo, we saw the rain coming in. Buceo disappeared. Then the rain arrived. Very heavy, sharp like needles. It lasted about 15 minutes.
Video to go here
By the time we arrived at Buceo, it was sunshine again and clouds all gone.
Lunch was BLT and carbonara.
Back out diving at 2:30.
Dive #59
Bubbles
27.4 metres / 66 mins / 28 degrees
Richard wanted to go to the end of the wall, which we did then bimbled around where the nudis hang out.
The current picked up and it was quite fierce on the safety stop.
We saw bubbles, flabellinas, slugs
Back at Buceo for coffee and skyflakes. A quick turn around and back out.
Dive #60
Twin Rocks
22.9 metres / 71 mins / 28 degrees
Our last dive is the holiday. Just us and Nanni. A lovely dive.
We saw a huge shoal of Jacks around the Twin Rocks and crabs and shrimps on wire coral, a coffee and cream nudi laying eggs, many other slugs.
So that is it. 60 dives. Done.
It’s always sad after the last dive but we have dived a lot and are looking forward to returning in June.
We said our thanks to Nanni, our trusty guide, Ay-Yeck, our captain, and Saldy, our crew. They have all been fantastic.
We had a drink at the bar, chatted with Dave,and Mirko and Babett. Mirko sent the rain video.
For dinner we had chicken adobo, chop suey and fried rice. Delicious.
After dinner we broke down our cameras and left them to dry overnight. They will need a proper soak when we get home. A couple of weeks in deionized water should sort then out.
Struggling to stay awake whilst doing photos…