Malapasca diving

The diving here was different to the indonesian sites.

It was about the big stuff, but there were still other nice dive sites.

Over the 5 days there I saw my first Manta, a gorgeous 4 m one which did many very close fly bys of us eg one metre, a Pellegic Thresher shark that was about 2m, so gorgeous it was entirely silver, totally reflective, with a tail almost as long as the body that moved like a ribbon as it swum. Like the manta it was curious, and swam past close many times. According to the great dive guides they are very friendly sharks. I noticed it had a small looking mouth, to my liking.

There were pygmy sea horses 1 cm big, 2 metre white tips, cuttlefish, gorgeous soft corals, nudibrants galore, amazing feather corals, lion fish, frog fish, bamboo shark, and a cave dive at gatu island. The visibilty was not great, but still had beautiful dives, I would like to see it in december with 30- 40 m visibility!

When we saw the reef sharks they were sleeping in a cave under a large rock. The guide chased them out for us. A 2m shark looks big under water, particulary with average visibilty. All the divers usually go close to rocks to see all the goodies on the surface, I noticed that we all avoided large dark openings for a while after that!

People are going to send me under water photos.

My body clock has totally changed, as I was up by 5am for the early shark dives, and n bed by 9:30pm - 10:00pm each night! Lots of early mornings.