Monday, February 25, 2008

Dive Banca Wreck and House Reef

I dived with Hamid today and Luer was our divemaster. I just wanted to do local close dives so chose not to go with the big group out to Balicasag. Our first dive in the morning was the Banca Wreck which was a few minute boat ride away.

A beautiful snake investigates my camera.

The Banca Wreck dive was a good dive but the wreck itself wasn’t that impressive. It’s understandable though because the wreck was only purposely sunk 6 months ago. Later in the dive we swam along a wall and got to see a sea snake which was a rare find; that find was worth the dive.


Another frogfish.

At House Reef, the visibility wasn’t that good but it was still a decent dive. We saw a small school of jacks, two frogfish, scorpionfish, and I found a small lionfish.


A scorpionfish lies camouflage on a coral.


After the dives, I cleaned up and journaled a little. Charlene, one of the bartenders at Oops! bar, wanted to hang out at Trendi internet cafe after I dived. So I texted her and went to Trendi but she wasn’t there because she couldn’t make it out. All night we tried hanging out but couldn’t because we were busy. Markus, Amy, and I went to Coco Vida to check email and eventually meet others for dinner. I didn’t get to use my computer because we ran out of time.

We ate dinner next door at Hayahay because we all had 10% off vouchers for every 6 dives we did. I ate the grilled squid which was okay. It was a little tough. During dinner, two guys serenaded our table. Their singing wasn’t that good but when they played Filipino songs they were quite good. For a couple of their songs they both played guitar on one guitar. It was hilarious.

We hung out at Oops! bar afterwards and did our usual silly stuff -- Liar Liar, Genga, etc. Nigel came by and we chatted a little. It was pretty much the last time I would see him because the next day he was leaving. He was a very nice person with a lot of helpful advice. He said he’s just passing along what someone did for him when he first arrived in Philippines and likewise I will do the same for someone else.

- jason

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