Bender

There is a big gecko that hangs out near the coffee station.  I am going to name him Grindz.

Nikko has a day off today.  I am lost without him.  Hengky is our guide.

The first dive of the morning was cold and the strongest current yet.  Dave put his pointer stick down in order to hold on to something and it bent.  I think I took five photos.  We surfaced at 45 minutes.

The second dive was Matap where it was warm and there was no current.  I made Hengky dive it like Nikko does so we could crawl up the mountain.  We found a transparent juvenile fish.  Maybe a rhinopia?

At dinner I brought the little “Drinking Buddies” markers and let each of the ladies pick one to keep.  Everyone got a kick out of it.

On the evening dive Hengky found a Phyllodesmium macphersonae!  Three of them, although I only saw two.  They are super tough to get a photo of because they blend right into the substrate.  I also worked on “Shawn the Sheep”:

Chugging along

206 - Phyllidiopsis annae

207 - Roboastra gracilis

208 - Phyllodesmium macphersonae