Saturday, September 27, 2008

Finally, Fun Diving

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Junior leading the dive.


I did two dives at Arco and Kalipayan today with my camera for the first time in a long time—I needed to test it out to see if it still works. Thankfully, it worked fine. I dived with Gunther and Phil but the dive eventually turned into a solo dive because I was taking pictures.

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Coral spiral.


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A snake eel alongside a moray eel.


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Scorpionfish takes cover.


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Fresh sea urchin lunch was not worth the pricks or the effort.


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Sponge corals.


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Clownfish in their home.


For lunch, on the boat, I tried eating raw sea urchin with the boat crew. I was surprised that there was so little meat to eat in each urchin. It was a little salty and I did prick myself with spines. I prefer someone else to do the dirty work for me.

After diving, I hung out at the dive shop with Gunther, Phil, and Ingrid. Ingrid is a friend of Sander whom met in Fiji. She’s a nice half Filipino half Swedish girl who’s really into pygmy seahorses.

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Milo and Stephanie party it up at Oops bar disco.


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Ingrid and I at the Oops disco.


For dinner, I went home to try cooking dried Danggist fish again. As usual, the fish reeks when you cook it. This time though I cooked it better and it tasted better than last time. After dinner I hung out at home and watched more of The Unit and then went to the Oops bar disco.



- jason

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