Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Pump It Up

I slept pretty well last night and got my slugs done in plenty of time.  I also didn’t have any unidentified ones to post to Facebook.

This morning’s dives are totally the reason I come to Romblon.  We barely went anywhere and just took photos of the most amazing slugs and critters.

I tried a new focus technique by using the back button.  I am still trying it but the good news is that however I have it set right now will let me focus with the back button and the regular half press.  That’s good.

I also asked Pirjo what she was taking a picture of because she couldn’t find it.  I assumed she could hit the play button on the bottom right of the camera, but I FORGOT that she looks at everything thru the viewfinder so that technique doesn’t work.

At lunch we took a picture with Vie.  Here is our Rock Star!


I shared my blog with him and he helped make a bunch of corrections.  He is really good at keeping up with the name changes.

I am going to do Blackwater tomorrow night here at Romblon.  Woot!  I messaged Mike to get the default settings.

For the afternoon, we are going to do two dives on the same trip.  We pushed back departure time to 3:30pm.  The night dive will be more of a dusk dive but that is ok.  We brought some snacks to eat on the surface interval.

I forgot to pump the vacuum in my housing today.  Crap.  At least I noticed it right away and was able to run back upstairs and do it.  Thank God.  A flood would be disasterous.  I feel like I need a sign: PUMP!!!

Tonight the dessert for dinner was ice cream, so we got coffee ice cream again.  Yum!

Nudi Count:

103 - Tenellia sibogae


104 - Eubranchus sp. 27


105 - Pleurobranchus albiguttatus


106 - Siphopteron tigranum


107 - Plocamopherus pecoso


108 - Siphopteron sp. 5


109 - Noumeaella sp.


110 - Lobiger sp. 1


111 - Cyerce sp. 4


112 - Cyerce cf. bourbonica


113 - Cyerce elegans


114 - Gymnodoris sp. 30


115 - Chelidonura pallida


116 - Tenellia sp. (I thought maybe Favorinus japonicus, but Vie said no)


117 - Ercolania endophytophaga


118 - Tritonia sp.


119 - Notodoris serenae (orignially I thought Aegires serenae but Vie corrected me)


120 - Aegires exeches


121 - Platydoris cinereobranchiata (orignially I thought Platydoris cruenta but Vie corrected me)


122 - Phyllodesmium lizardensis



123 - Phyllidiella annulata





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