Slept well. Another nine and a half hours!
Breakfast was fruits followed by scrambled eggs, bacon and toast for me and fruits followed by eggs and bacon for Richard.
Diving at 9am but of course we are early. On the smaller boat today. We have been spoilt as it has only been us on the boat each day. Lovely.
We are diving with Joseph who is very knowledgeable and off course very good at finding critters.
Dive #7
White Beach
Coral dive. Where we got in it was a little bland but improved as the dive went along, ending at a lovely pinnacle.
We saw various slugs, lots of featherworms, which I love.
A very enjoyable dive.
The surface interval was taken in the bay, watching jet skis tow huge doughnuts that seat about eight people.
I also learnt that something I thought could only be done in the bathroom could also be done when bobbing on the surface of the sea… Needs must!
Dive #8
White Beach
This was a very different dive
Muck dive. Sandy slope.
We saw three frogfish, cuttefish, tiny mantis shrimps, nudis and a very excited blue ring octopus protecting its eggs.
Once we got back to the resort we had a dip in the pool before lunch.
Lunch was BBQ seafood kebabs, with a delicious red (?) rice and lettuce. Richard followed that with a huge bowl of mango ice cream and chopped banana.
Dive #9
White Beach
A different part again. The problem with muck diving is that often photos end up looking a bit drab. So, I set myself a mission, to only take colourful pictures. Did pretty well actually.
We saw a tiny orange frogfish, nudis that looks a bit like marshmallow, shrimps in soft coral, mimic octopus, a teeny tiny yellow spotted unicorn nudi which could only have been about 2-3mm.
A very enjoyable dive.
We went for a swim as soon as we got back. Had drinks in the pool. Richard had a negroni and I had a mango and banana juice.
Afterwards, we looked at photos. Sorted Richard’s that we were going to keep. Deleted the ones we didn’t… Then realised that I had deleted them all… Oops! Luckily, I realised and told him just before he formatted his SD card. Obviously had to redo it, which took extra time.
Dinner was prawn pasta (pasta shaped like earlobes – orecchiette) followed by fish in a caper sauce with vegetables (similar to ratatouille). Richard had a tiramisu for pudding. Made him happy, me? not so much. Insert a very sad face here… VERY SAD!!!! Should have taken a picture but I couldn’t bring myself to… VERY, VERY SAD!!!!!!!!!!