We got to the hotel around 9am, so we got checked in and did the 11am dive. There were three other divers on our boat (an Italian family) who had just done there checkout dive in the morning. We attempted to go dive just at the point to the left of the hotel, but visibility was apparently not good enough so we went back past the hotel just a couple minutes away and dove a site that was called Twin Rocks, I think. The site was a slope with patchy coral, we were around 50 to 60 feet for most of the dive, but came up shallower on the return.
Our guide found tons of critters, so even though there were some spots with nice little walls or coral heads, we pretty much had our heads buried looking for macro stuff. We saw a bunch of nudibranchs of varying sizes, I think I only found boring dorids, but our guide did a better job. There were also some cool tiny shrimp and crabs. I found several small morays, including one that was free swimming, and there was a yellow ribbon eel! My best find of the dive was a stonefish. Rob was not as impressed as I was (probably because the fish was facing the wrong direction to really get a good pic) but I insisted he take a pic for documentation purposes. We also saw a dancing sweetlips. When we surfaced, conditions had gotten super snotty and wind waves were breaking over our heads as we got out of our gear next to the boat. That was kind of unexpected to me, since it was really flat when we got in.
We went back to the resort and had lunch. Rob had sisig of course and I had some veggie noodles. We went back to our room to rest for a while, and during that time, the weather really deteriorated. It started to rain and was crazy windy. The rain stopped by the time for our next dive, but it was still quite windy. Getting on the boat was interesting.
We headed across the channel to do a dive called Apol Reef, but it turned out to be too much current there, so we went to a muck dive site nearby. This was probably my preference anyway. This dive was great. We saw tons of Shaun the sheep nudis, which Rob is obsessed with, two little frogfish (one orange and one black), some pipefish, a seahorse, a non-flamboyant cuttlefish, and tons of nudis. Some very small aeolids. Woot. I found a neat little fish with a long dangly lure thing sticking out of its head. I think that was my best find of the dive, only because Joemar did all of the good finding on the dive. One notable thing about this dive was that it seemed to be at the junction of two masses of water, one that was definitely colder than the other. You could see a shimmering layer where the two met in a couple of places, but mostly you could just feel it.
We decided to pass on the evening dive, since I was kind of tired. After a bit of relaxing, we went to the bar and had mango coladas. Yummm. Then we headed to dinner, where we had chicken adobo, grilled liempo (pork belly) and veggie chop suey.
We got to the hotel around 9am, so we got checked in and did the 11am dive. There were three other divers on our boat (an Italian family) who had just done there checkout dive in the morning. We attempted to go dive just at the point to the left of the hotel, but visibility was apparently not good enough so we went back past the hotel just a couple minutes away and dove a site that was called Twin Rocks, I think. The site was a slope with patchy coral, we were around 50 to 60 feet for most of the dive, but came up shallower on the return.
Our guide found tons of critters, so even though there were some spots with nice little walls or coral heads, we pretty much had our heads buried looking for macro stuff. We saw a bunch of nudibranchs of varying sizes, I think I only found boring dorids, but our guide did a better job. There were also some cool tiny shrimp and crabs. I found several small morays, including one that was free swimming, and there was a yellow ribbon eel! My best find of the dive was a stonefish. Rob was not as impressed as I was (probably because the fish was facing the wrong direction to really get a good pic) but I insisted he take a pic for documentation purposes. We also saw a dancing sweetlips. When we surfaced, conditions had gotten super snotty and wind waves were breaking over our heads as we got out of our gear next to the boat. That was kind of unexpected to me, since it was really flat when we got in.
We went back to the resort and had lunch. Rob had sisig of course and I had some veggie noodles. We went back to our room to rest for a while, and during that time, the weather really deteriorated. It started to rain and was crazy windy. The rain stopped by the time for our next dive, but it was still quite windy. Getting on the boat was interesting.
We headed across the channel to do a dive called Apol Reef, but it turned out to be too much current there, so we went to a muck dive site nearby. This was probably my preference anyway. This dive was great. We saw tons of Shaun the sheep nudis, which Rob is obsessed with, two little frogfish (one orange and one black), some pipefish, a seahorse, a non-flamboyant cuttlefish, and tons of nudis. Some very small aeolids. Woot. I found a neat little fish with a long dangly lure thing sticking out of its head. I think that was my best find of the dive, only because Joemar did all of the good finding on the dive. One notable thing about this dive was that it seemed to be at the junction of two masses of water, one that was definitely colder than the other. You could see a shimmering layer where the two met in a couple of places, but mostly you could just feel it.
We decided to pass on the evening dive, since I was kind of tired. After a bit of relaxing, we went to the bar and had mango coladas. Yummm. Then we headed to dinner, where we had chicken adobo, grilled liempo (pork belly) and veggie chop suey.
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