We dove the Cathedral and Wolong Cave again this morning. There were still good nudis and even a juvenile Spanish Dancer. Which is good since I was missing a photo for that one.
Pirjo and Francis arrived today. I got to talk to them over lunch and then Francis and I did an afternoon house reef dive. It was a little slow but we saw the resident black frogfish, a couple of egg masses and a one eyed eel under the dock. I found an ornate ghostpipefish on my own and pointed it out to Francis.
I stayed in my wetsuit during the surface interval and read my book. We were all set to do the 5:30pm night dive when a SERIOUS storm rolled in. So bad that they actually canceled the boat dive. It was the right thing to do. They still allowed us to do the house reef. But with pouring rain, lightning and thunder… I wasn’t willing to jump back into the same dive site I just got out from. I’m sure it would have been fine below the surface. And I think six divers still went. Rain has only impacted my dives one other time in five years. And that was just a slight delay. It didn’t get canceled. So that’s a pretty good track record.
Pirjo has some edits to my species list. I am glad because I was just kinda winging it on my own. And moving fast, so I’m sure I made mistakes.
Mona was singing the chicken dance for some reason, so I told her the story about Chicken Stu. They have one here too. I guess a group brought it recently. They call it the Chicken of Shame. The legend lives on.
Once the boat dive was canceled, I took a shower in the rain with lightning and thunder going on around me. It was pretty cool. We lost power and the backup generator kicked in. This is a real storm.
Little List
134 - Samla sp. 1
135 - Trapania palmula
136 - Phyllidiella nigra
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