Pics UW#34 #35 plus #33 previously not posted.
Diveshop: Turtle Bay Divers, Perhentian
Other divers: Yaakub (OWSI-Boss) Kate (OWSI), Tim (DM)
#34
Two Bornella sighted, cute, but we are quite sick of them.
A cute decorator crab with an anemone or soft coral on it - moved too fast for decent pics.
Two octopus - very shy, when we got close they clammed up inside the shells they used for home.
Current, 2 cameras, a torch, safety sausage, I didn't bring my gear and was using a BCD someone left behind and it was autoinflating - to remove the inflator hose or not? ... I didn't. The last time I dived here, I surfaced with 100bars, dive time being limited because we avoided Deco, so I arrogantly thought I could do 60mins with nitrox, but to my enlightenment - I surfaced with less than 35bars for the same 40 mins. Must be losing it ...
#35
A frogfish. I was puking the tuna sandwich I had for lunch so I surfaced after shooting it. The other divers stayed longer and shot the smaller red frogfish as well. There are 4 frogfish there but only 2 were sighted.
Taken my gear back last month - the diveshop has stopped operation for the season and had sent the BCDs to the mainland. The site is not routine, and not expected to permanent so I was invited back to shoot the frogfish when they were found because "otherwise you will nag for the whole of the next season..." :)
Till next March,
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