A pleasant day of diving

Patrick goes in close for a shot of jacks

Today was a nice sunny warm day. We did two dives at Balicasag Island - Diver’s Heaven and Black Forest. At Diver’s Heaven I got to see the pygmy seahorse but it was in an awkward position to take a good picture of it. It’s really up to them if they want their picture taken. I also got to see a moray eel and a small crab. The highlight of Black Forest was a large school of jacks and a napoleon wrasse that passed by. Unfortunately though visibility in the water wasn’t that good.

Noel finds something for the group.

Moray eel

After dives I met Ramona and Jana from Germany. They are both nurses but Ramona is a PADI dive instructor. I was planning on moving back into my original room but found out Ramona and Jana moved into it. Sander helped me out and had them swap with me. After moving, I walked to Rona’s Corner market and got some batteries for my flashlight for a night dive. I bumped into Jolie and Charlene on the way back putting up flyers for Oops Bar!.

A decorator crab

Nite dive at 6 am at House reef. Saw mandarin dragonets whiich only come out at night. They were cool but really hard to take pictures of because they are so small and quick. Along the wall, I also saw some decorator type crab that was well camouflaged, a large hermit, and a small red crab. Doing a night dive here isn’t as bad as one in Los Angeles because it isn’t as cold as LA.

A red crab comes out at night

After the night dive Patrick, Ramona, Jana, and I decided to eat at Coco Vida. Of us four, Patrick was the only other one that spoke English well. Ramona could understand some but couldn’t really speak it while Jana doesn’t know English. This made our dinner conversation for me very boring. Pretty much the whole time Ramona was talking to Patrick in German. It was a boring dinner but the food was good.

- jason