Pygmy seahorse!

Pygmy seahorse in gorgonian fan coral

Woke up around 7:30 a.m. which is now the norm to get ready and eat a little breakfast. Sander introduced me to these banana pancakes which are awesome. By 9:30 a.m., we set out onto the boat for a 30 minute ride to Balicasag Island. It was a sunny morning and fairly mellow surf. The two dive sites we dived were “Cathedral” and “Black Forest”.

A large school of jacks

Cathedral was a nice wall dive where I saw a yellow nudibranch, a hard to find pygmy seahorse, scorpion fish, and the usual little crabs and such. I went down to 94 feet and the temperature of the water was 78 degrees Fahrenheit. Very nice dive. Back on the boat we ate lunch and unfortunately the weather got cool as the sun went behind clouds.


The next dive, Black Forest, had poorer visibility but had lots of fish swimming around. The amount of fish was very impressive and is hard to describe in words or a picture. The most impressive part of the dive though was a large school of jacks that swam by. There were hundreds of them.

- jason