Dive Day #9 – Buceo – Jo
Flat calm here…
Leisurely breakfast with Nina. Omelette for me and fruits for Richard.
Then off to Red Rock (the farthest east we go) via Secret Bay for our coastguard sign off.
Wind getting up and starting to rain.
Dive# 28 – Red Rock
Depth 22 metres / Time 78 mins / Temp 28 degrees
Lovely dive. Bimbled about. Safety stop at the top on the pinnacle.
We saw loads of nudis, frogfish, beautiful pinnacle, hundreds of thousands of red tooth trigger fish which surrounded us.
But of a chilly surface interval, chatting, coffee and skyflakes!! I asked to have skyflakes on the boat as the fake oreos have milk in. I eat about 2-3 skyflakes, they provided 40-50!! Plenty for everyone else.
Dive #29 – Bubbles
Richard had a face on as he didn’t get to do the dive he was hoping for. I had a lovely dive.
We saw bubbles, frogfish, nudis including two very nicely positioned beautiful risbecia and a couple of psychedelic slugs.
Lunch was a pork schnitzel and coleslaw.
It’s no longer windy or raining…
We head to Koala (the farthest north we go).
Dive #30 – Koala
Depth 25 metres / Time 82 mins / temp 29 degrees
Lovely dive, although a bit of current and surge at the end. We head towards the gorgonian fan, find the pygmy seahorse then back up the peninsula.
We saw frogfish, pygmy seahorse, schooling mackerel, various nudis including flabelinas.
Surface interval at Buceo with coffee, skyflakes and cookies.
Dive #31 Twin Rocks
Depth 24 metres / Time 80 mins /temp 29 degrees
Just us and Nani on this dive. It is so special when you have the dive site all to yourselves, especially a dive site like this.
We dropped in at the block, bimbled northwards and then bimbled back. It was dark by the time we got out.
Right near the end we came across a couple of huge lobsters. They were bright blue and pink with huge antennas measuring about five foot across. No claws like UK lobsters have.
We saw yet another frogfish, various nudis, lobsters, schooling trevallys.
A chat at the bar before dinner of pancit canton (noodles with vegetables) and Shanghai rolls.
Camera stuff, picture stuff and sleep.