I slept well, Richard not so much…
Another beautiful day. Less clouds than yesterday and looks like less wind too.
Time for breakfast…
Every time we are here I have Lipton’s green tea and kalamansi to drink. Delicious. Bought the stuff to make it at home… Not delicious! What’s the difference?
We are thinking that today, we will be the only divers. Maggie left for UK yesterday and Beni and Matt leave for Australia today.
So we wait to see.
Every morning, at home and abroad we do (or try to do) the NY Times Connections.
Dive #13
Sinandang Wall
Right round the far side. A fair amount of chop on the surface. Not my favourite.
Once underwater there was total calmness. No surge, no current.
Coral outcrops and a wall later in the dive.
We saw two large reef octopus. The second one I thought that I would entice it out by scratching the rock around the area. The octopus came straight out, it gave me a bit of a start! It then tried to hide again.
We also saw, a couple of Cinderella nudis and a beautiful risbecia among lots of other stuff.
Our surface interval was spent here…
It looked like this, panoramic view.
Dive #14
A different part of this site. The first hour was spent on stones and rubble, the next half hour was a bit deeper on sand.
We saw lots. Lots of different nudis teeny tiny cuttlefish and a blue shrimp on a blue starfish. Finished off with a Shaun the sheep slug.
We had a dip in the pool before lunch of sausages, Chinese fried rice and lettuce. Very tasty. Richard had pudding of fruit cocktail and ice cream.
Dive #15
White beach
Looking for the blue ringed octopus again.
A bit of current combined with sausage acid reflux at the beginning of the dive, I wasn’t feeling too happy. Then I spotted a nicely positioned flabelina, and order was restored!!
The flabelina was shortly followed by a frogfish and the blue ringed octopus. Lots of pictures were taken. After all of that, there was a mimic octopus with its eyes just popping up about the sand. I very slowly and gently put my hand towards it and it reached out and touched my finger with its tentacle – a very special moment!
After the dive we went for a dip in the pool, where we drank cocktails. Richard had another negroni and I had a mango daiquiri.
Then a review of the photos, of which there were lots.
It is quiet in the restaurant this evening…
Red horse and sprite, both with copious amounts of ice…
So… Pasta course…
Followed by…
And for the first time, Richard had no dessert!
Alexia and Sandra came and chatted with us after dinner. It was lovely to catch up with them and tell them what a lovely time we were having.
On the way back to our room, I almost stepped on this frog (toad?). That would have made a mess!!
That’s about it for today. Tomorrow is our last diving day in Puerto Galera, which is sad but we will be diving in Anilao the day after that. Happy days.