Malapascua Day 3

We slept in as long as we could today; however, I think we both woke up around 2 a.m. and were awake on and off until we finally got up around 6-something.  Eric got all the camera gear ready and then we headed to breakfast.  We had French toast made with their homemade bread covered with fresh cut mango and cinnamon.  It was devoured in no time--delicious. 

We headed out for our first dive around 9:30.  We wanted to do something easy, slow, and fairly shallow as this would be the first dive with my new underwater housing and camera.  In addition, with all of our house selling, buying, and remodeling, along with various other vacations prior to that, it had been almost a year since my last dive and nearly that long for Eric as well. 

We had a nice easy dive.  I thought my camera was supposed to be white balancing, but obviously the settings were not set correctly.  So I got footage of a lot of clownfish and some nudibranchs, etc., but it was all rather on the blue side, having not been white balanced.  It was a nice dive, either way though.

We headed back to the resort and had some lunch and sat around in the shade until our next dive scheduled for 1:15 p.m.  It was rather warm this afternoon with not much wind.  Eric went and got the laptop out and sweating rather profusely trying to get a post put on Facebook.

After nearly falling asleep in the shade, it was time for our next dive.  The second dive was at Deep Slope.  Gino, our dive guide, found us all kinds of neat stuff on this dive.  We saw cuddlefish, mantis shrimp, nudibranchs, pigmy seahorse, regular seahorse, orangutan crabs, urchin crabs, moray eel, striped eel catfish, leaf fish, whipcoral shrimp, pipe seahorses, among others. 

My camera worked much better on the second dive once it was set to white balance properly.  I got some good footage of quite a few things.  After this dive we headed back to the resort again.  We rinsed our wetsuits out and headed back to the room to get a shower and check out our footage and photos from today. 

We were hungry after our hard day of diving (Ha, Ha!) and headed to the restaurant for some dinner.  Tonight we tried the vegetarian parmesan cream pasta with garlic bread—very good.  Then again, I don’t think they have anything on their menu that is bad.  They have quite an extensive menu now with lots of good choices. 

It was a very relaxing day of diving, lounging, and eating.