That was really cool, 54 minutes later and we were out!
Finally we topped the day off with a night dive on the lighthouse reef which was very impressive.
The exquisite mandarin fish happened to be everywhere!
This morning, 5 am, Monad Shoal.
Upon arrival to the site the thresher sharks gave me a warm welcome for my first dive at Monad.
As we were getting anchored they started breaching about 40 meters from the boat!
By breaching I mean jumping a meter or more out of the water!
Then, we got down to it.
It’s a pretty cool symbiotic relationship, especially to see happening in real time!
Anyway within five minutes of reaching depth a shark came in to the area where all the divers were.
That was absolutely magnificent.
That’s what counts right?
I loved it, and apparently that was one of the best mornings Monad has had in a while!
I got lucky I guess.
Damn do I ever appreciate it though.
This is not a rarity in the Philippines or Asia FYI.
Anyway though, you just get a serving of rice and grab some meat or whatever and eat!
Gato Island was great.
People told me it was really good, but it was really good.
Continuing on a white tip shark came out of the darkness to greet us kindly.
Two more white tip sharks later and we made it out.
Three pygmy seahorses on a gorgonian sea fan!So amazing.
Soon after I did my first bit of guiding as a divemaster trainee!
All went well, we made it back to the boat alive.
All went well, but by the end of it all my sinuses were killing me.
But, diving wasn’t at fault here, well not primarily anyway.
Previously in Cebu I was staying in a hostel that had the aircon cranked up SO COLD.
It hurts and I’ve got a dry cough from breathing so much dry air diving.
