Diving at Anilao, Batangas with Day

Jim drove Day, Jeni, and I at 6 am to embark on our 4 hour drive to Batangas, just south of Manila. At first it sounded a little crazy driving 4 hours to just do a few dives. It ended up being a fun little dive-road trip adventure. On the way, we met up with two of Jeni’s friends when we ate breakfast at McDonalds.

We dove with the Blue Azul dive resort. Our Divemaster, Dennis, kept on trying to talk to me in Tagalog because he thought I was Filipino. We did two dives, which were good but a little chaotic because most of the people diving haven’t dove in a couple years and there were two first time scuba (intro dives) divers. Despite that, they were both fun dives and it was interesting seeing how the divemasters handled everything.

We hung out around the resort after the dive which was fine except for all the mosquitoes biting me. When we got our bill we were shocked to see how much everything costed. They seemed to have charged us for every little thing about the dive - boat rental, extra gas on boat for staying out too long, etc. On top of this, Jeni knew the manager and this was his discount to us.

We drove back in the evening and I pretty much slept the entire drive back. I was so exhausted.

- jason