I woke up a couple times in the night because my fan kept going off. I guess there was a power cut or two overnight.
Alex and Uri found a scorpion in their room last night. I didn’t even know they had them here. Yikes. But the locals talk about being bit by a scorpion as if it were a bee.
On the ride back to the resort, we ran into a pod of melon head whales which are a type of dolphin. And there was another pod of regular dolphins next to them. We just sat and watched for a while.
On the night dive at Matap, we found THE BIGGEST Gymnodoris aurita. It seriously was the size of a guinea pig. I took a picture and thought, how could I improve it. I could not think of any way to do so. It was awesome. I handed it off to Pirjo and swam along. Then I thought, this was so special I needed to go back and just look at it for a while over Pirjo’s shoulder. Then I saw that there was a second species of Gymnodoris, really small. Then I saw that they were getting close together and I thought that the big one was going to eat the little one. I swear I saw it going into the mouth, but then we saw it reappear later. Wow! What an encounter.
At dinner I gave Mona the Chicken Stu I had packed in case of unruly divers. We didn’t need it, so I told her she could use it for next season. I also chatted with Alex and Uri again. They shared a story about a guest who was a pilot and would not allow anyone in his room the whole time he was here… except one day when he wanted the sheets changed. He had a dozen stuffed animals lined up perfectly on his bed. WTF? Who travels with stuffed animals? And they said he was in his late 40s/early 50s.
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