Dive day #10
Another bright and flat calm day here, we head down for breakfast where today is spam day. I’m not a huge fan of spam but it adds a certain something to my fried eggs on toast (which I seem to default to these days, despite being profoundly aware that un oeuf is un oeuf! ???????????????? )
Buceo have three of their own boats and when there are more guests, they hire in more. The guides are still from Buceo though and are all very excellent.
Dive #37
19.5 metres / 80.minutes / 28 degrees
Siam SIM
A lot of sand on this one and then it all kicks off after 40 minutes with Skelton shrimp, other shrimps and at the end, a hairy frog fish, nice!
That photo is after the dive, here’s one of our guide Nani, that’s the effect we have on him!
Next dive, Bubbles!
Dive #38
23.2 metres / 72 minutes / 28 degrees
Bubbles
Another excellent tour around one of my favourite sites here, dark and mysterious!
Some flabbelina action as well as a huge octopus, nudis and shrimp, and of course, bubbles!
Back at base Jo has BLT and I have the Pancit Canton with vegetables which I spice up a little with the chilli and garlic sauce that Dave Santos kindly gave us shortly after we had arrived. I think I might just have over done it a little!
.. And now, the long wait (ok, only 2 hours) until the next dive at three pm.
As an aside, we are diving in our skinny wet suits as the water temp is around 27-28 degrees and we like to be toasty so to keep them in tip top and sweet smelling condition there is a special treatment that we apply to them twice daily:
One particular thing to note about today is that it is 25 years ago today that Jo and I went out on our first date.
We had met already earlier in the year but we were both in other relationships at the time.
When we get back to our room at lunch…
Dive #39
29 metres / 62 minutes / 28 degrees
Mainit West
This is the western side of the corner, not far from the resort. Lots to see, all the regular suspects though I’m trying not to take more nudi shots but instead I’m focusing (!) on shrimps and crabs and a little more super macro for the tiniest of things, let’s see how that goes!
Back on dry land it seems that Jo and I are the only two on our boat wanting to do a night dive so we bring it forward to allow just enough surface interval and we dive at 5.00pm.
Dive #40
23.5 metres / 66 minutes / 28 degrees
Twin rocks (the twin rocks end!)
It’s still light as we jump in (well, it’s more like a controlled fall as many of you will know). Our guide Nani suggests that he can find us a dragon shrimp so we filled him down to about 24m and sure enough, he finds us a dragon shrimp (we like dragon shrimps).
It’s not in the best position for photography but we get our shots.
Then we start to make our way back up and encounter a couple of other well positioned shrimps on whip corals, nice!
We then head back up to around 14m for the rest of the dive, right next to the twin rocks which give the site its name.
Lots to see. By now it’s mostly dark and there are schools of thousands of red tooth trigger fish which don’t really like my swanky new dive torch so they can be herded around quite easily by appropriate direction of the beam (much fun!)
After a dive to 24m lasting almost 70 minutes, I decid to surface leaving Jo with Nani for another 5 Minutes or so. Another awesome dive.
Back to base for Prinks then a dinner of vegetable chop suey, sweet and sour chicken and rice, yum!