Day 7: Yangeffo/Gam

I missed the first dive, at a site called Mayhem, because I was sick, which was unfortunate since apparently there were a lot of wobbegong sharks.  I sort of suspect this might have been the best dive of the trip, but I’m pretending not to suspect this for obvious reasons.

The second dive was at Citrus Ridge. We saw three wobbegong sharks, a blacktip shark, and a small blue-spotted ray.  (After we saw all of these wobbegong sharks, the description of Mayhem was revised to make it seem like maybe they didn’t see quite as many wobbegong sharks as I originally thought.)

There was also a large school of small baitfish right at the start of the dive.  There was a decent amount of current in the middle of the dive, and then the shallow reef at the end was very nice. It felt like it would make a really good snorkel site.

The third dive was at Mangrove Ridge. There is a dive site there, but we effectively did the snorkel profile.  Right at the start there was a really nice school of yellowtail fusiliers. The mangroves themselves had cardinalfish, and there were more fish hiding in the corals just outside the mangroves.

I found a coral banded pipefish in a small cave.  I was excited to see it, and also excited that I had managed to find this myself.

In the afternoon, we saw an oceanic manta from the big boat while in transit.