Dive day #7
It’s raining this morning and very still, so it looks like the dampness will be with us for some time.
Up and six followed by breakfast and camera work before our first dive.
We share most things but wetsuits shouldn’t be one of those things. Once we got half way ready, we had to start again. Richard noticed that his one was too tight, I didn’t… That is quite worrying. Richard says I have to say that I took the wrong suit and that it’s my fault that he was wearing mine!!!
A bit of a delay leaving the beach this morning as getting the coastguard to sign off on the license for us to leave, took longer than usual.
Dive #25
Daryl Laut
29.5 metres / 60 mins /28 degrees
I love this dive site. Unfortunately, it was busy today, which was a shame. I spent half the dive off the bottom of the wreck looking for nudis and the other half on the top photographing Christmas tree worms.
More miscommunication between Richard and I underwater. I said “look here are our boat buddies, Nicole, Christian and Hans-Peter, and their guide, Jimson. We can follow them to the boat. What do you think about doing that?”. Richard heard “go this way to the boat” which wasn’t where the boat was and Richard didn’t want to go the way, so swam (stomped off) in the opposite direction.
We saw various nudis, of varying sizes, a pretty blue flat worm, Christmas tree worms and an amazing red frogfish.
Nanni had suggested a new name for the site… Bubbles Point…
During our surface interval we returned to Buceo briefly before heading off to Heidi’s Point to drop out boat buddies there to search for the flamboyant cuttlefish. We (Richard, myself, Nanni and Zeinib were then dropped off at Bubbles for our dive. The sites are very close together.
Dive #26
Bubble Point
22.3 metres / 68 mins / 27 degrees
Fabulous dive. We went to the area where the nudis hang out, where we spent the majority of the dive. We then moved along the wall a little looking for flabellinas and the janolus, both of which we found. Then onto the top of the wall and we made our way back to where we got in.
We saw various nudis, flabellinas, janolus, cardinal fish with eggs in its mouth, peacock mantis shrimp with eggs.
Lunch was BLT for me and pasta carbonara for Richard.
Photo work, blogging and relaxing…
It stopped raining early on and the sun is trying to come out.
Dive #27
Viverye
27.7 metres / 63 mins / 28 degrees
This is the sandy slope with seahorse ranch at about 22 metres.
We saw lots of seahorses, probably 7 or 8. Various shrimps and crabs in the soft corals.
Just us doing the fourth dive of the day, so back out early with the idea of getting back in the water after an hour surface interval. We chose to go to Mainit Corner.
Dive #28
Manit Corner dusk dive
21.3metres / 66mins / 28 degrees
Only us on the site. Fabulous.
Every time we do this site, we say how amazing it is. When all you can see in the torch beam are huge rocks encrusted with amazing colours.
We saw no other divers (very special), shrimps, cup coral, a huge deep red nudi about the size of a dinner plate, flabellinas, lots of red toothed triggerfish trying to sleep, and large eels.
Dinner was pork sizig and pancit canton (egg noodles) with vegetables. Delicious!
Cameras and photos after dinner.