Down in a Hole

Pygmy sea horse actually looking at the camera; they always seem to turn away.

I did two dives today with the first dive with Alli and Grace to “Sinan Digan” dive site. Alli was nice enough to reward my free intern work with Grace by not charging me for the first dive today. Grace led the dive and watched over some other guests while Alli was my “buddy” as I took pictures. The dive was a great dive where I got to see three pygmy sea horses on one sea fan and lots of nudibranchs throughout.

Nudibranch slithering away.

A tiny scorpionfish lays on some rock.

After the dive, I hung out at El Galleon a little bit before going home to cook lunch. At home, I cooked some pork that was getting a little old with some noodles. My new favorite way of cooking is frying things in the wok with a lot of oil. It gives meat a nice crispy outer edge. I cut up the pork into bite sized strips, seasoned with salt, pepper, and fresh garlic, and threw it into the hot wok. The only thing I don’t like about cooking this way is getting hit by spattering hot oil.

A large cuttlefish hovers around looking at us.

The second dive was at 2:30 PM and was led by Pete and Kjell (pronounced “shell”) at the “Hole in the Wall” dive site. I’ve never dive this site and was excited about it because I heard good things about it. Its name comes from the fact that there’s a small hole or tunnel you can swim through. The dive site had a lot of varied currents both strong and weak, warm and cool. While it was an interestingly diverse site in terms of conditions, it wasn’t a good site to take pictures on. Early on the dive though when it was a little calm I did get a nice shot of a large cuttlefish.

In the evening, Grace and I hung out at the Point bar where she managed to make some drinks herself.


- jason