Today was a cloudy almost stormy day. The best thing is that underwater, it really doesn't matter.
As I walked to breakfast, I heard a dog barking. I looked over and saw that it was just Gary. He has this talent to bark EXACTLY like a dog. A man of many talents.
My snippet of the morning was that there is a "finger patterned" Nembrotha lineolata. They found it the other day. I didn't see it. I'll see if I can get a copy of the picture.
I had such a nice chat with Alisha on the way to the divesite. She worked in the dive industry in Australia but has been away from it for like six years. She still does marine biology research. And her mom is also starting to suffer from dementia, even though she is very young. I could totally empathize.
The resort is down one guide, so Anne-Li and I got split up into two different groups. I was put with some less experienced divers, so they put the Assistant Manager of the resort, Alisa with me. It was really great and we found some terrific things. After the first dive we were at the surface for quite some time as we were the last to be picked up. She is really darling.
Gary was rallying the guests for a night snorkel, but I would much rather dive as it is hard to take photos on a snorkel with a bigger camera. I asked John if he would be interested in doing an unguided house reef night dive and he said he would. Hooray!
The afternoon dive was just a mass of divers on a silty site. There were some good finds though.
Anne-Li and Caroline joined John and I for the night dive. I really wanted to get to the wall. So I had us surface swim to the moored boat in harbor and then dropped down right on the reef. It worked like a charm. I even navigated back to the spot we descended. I was so much happier doing this than just snorkeling the house reef.
Gary has put his stickers everywhere at the resort. It is appropriate to put one in the dive shop, but he also put them on really nice woodwork in the dining room and the bathroom. I jokingly apologized to Jamie the resort manager on Gary's behalf.
Jamie also walked me through how the photo display works. The have a certain album for current guests that just displays photos in random order like a screensaver. Then every once in a while Jamie archives these photos to a backup.
I showed my cross stitch patterns to some folks at dinner. Here are some of the stitch/photo pairings:
Here are today's slugs:
32 - Goniobranchus verrieri
33 - Caloria indica
34 - Thuridilla albopustulosa
35 - Sakuraeolis cf. nungunoides
36 - Mariaglaja sandrana
37 - Notarchus indicus
38 - Diniatys dubius
39 - Halgerda batangas
40 - Miamira miamirana
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