Day 3: Boo/Fiabacet

Conditions were rainy and cold with poor light.

The first dive was at Boo West. The site had a main structure and a deeper pinnacle with large sea fans and a lot of fish. We saw sharks in the distance.  It was a solid dive, but nothing amazing.

The second dive was at Whale Rock and was one of the best of the trip, with strong current, dense soft corals, and a lot of fish life. We spent a good amount of time on a small pinnacle dealing with the current.  I feel like we finally found awesome soft corals here.

The third dive was at Kalig East and Rob and Clinton were shooting macro, which turned out to be not very productive.  The site was a wall that was pretty nice, just not very good for macro on that particular day and time.  We saw a mantis shrimp, nudis, and a crab.  There was one spot with nice soft corals and tons and tons of fish. Overall it was pretty fishy though mostly concentrated in that one area. I saw a napoleon wrasse down deep.  Clinton saw a bumphead parrotfish and doubted my napoleon wrasse sighting, but I swear I saw one!

In the evening, we went to a beach to hang out (and drink) around sunset.  The beach where we docked had baby blacktip sharks in the shallows, which were insanely cute.  I really want to get one as a pet and keep it in the bath tub.

Aside from watching (and taking not very good iphone footage of) the baby sharks, we just hung out on the beach, which had insanely soft white sand, possibly the softest sand on a beach that I've ever experienced.  And the boat crew made a nice little bar setup on the beach (which reminded me of sundowners on our South Africa safari, but without the giraffes roaming around us).