Saturday, November 27, 2010

Palau Day 6 - Saturday, November 27, 2010

What can I say. Today was another amazing day of diving. We did three dives again today. First we did German Channel again. We saw an amazing all pink anemone. Then we saw a feather-tail ray. We did not think we were going to see any Mantas as there did not seem to be much activity. However, as we were swimming along we saw a very large grouper sitting on the sand at about 100 feet. We decided to go down and investigate. Shortly thereafter we saw a giant manta ray swimming towards us right behind the grouper. It was an amazing experience. It was just the five of us at about 100 feet in relatively clear water and the manta swam right towards us and glided gracefully over the top of us.

Our second dive was at Turtle Wall. We did see a turtle and it was a nice dive but we did not see anything truly out of the ordinary. There were still lots of fish, though, and I did get some footage of a giant puffer fish being cleaned.

On the boat ride over to our third dive site today, Blue Corner, we saw a pod of dolphins and our boat driver Ray took us right up to them. The current was going pretty good here again today and we cruised along the wall and then sat at the edge for a while waiting for the sharks to come in closer. A few sharks came a little closer today, but still not close enough to suit us. After we left the edge of the wall we saw a baby spotted eagle ray and a large school of barracuda. We ended up going from the outgoing side to the incoming side of Blue Corner in one dive, which is pretty amazing.

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