More Diving in the Celebes Sea…

8:30pm. 4 more dives today. Woke up at 6am to another fierce storm, more lightening, thunder, wind, and rain, but this time I was prepared. I had already shut all the shutters and doors and didn’t have to do any mad running around like the night before.

It was hard to actually get out of bed for the 8:30am dive with it still windy and raining a bit, but by the time we were on the boat it had started to clear some and the weather thankfully got better and better all day. Eventually the sun came out and the winds died down.

The current was strong underwater though and we fought it hard during the first dive at Mabul Island. Second 2 dives we did were drift dives, following the current, so it made things much easier.

Last dive was a sunset dive which I did with my buddy Thomas from Germany, just him and I. The best dive today was the second one where I saw 6 turtles (!), an octopus, 4 ribbon eel, and lots of nudibrancs. Also saw many frogfish today – white ones, yellow ones, pink ones, and black ones.

The sunset dive was cool because I also saw a turtle but I saw my first sleeping parrot fish, all nestled up in his cocoon for the night. That was the best!

I’ve decided to stay an extra day so that means I’ve got a full day tomorrow still and then I guess I’ll have to leave the day after tomorrow.

Waiting for the divers

The dive map

Sunset at Kapalai

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