April 11, 2012
Today we slept in and then got up and had breakfast and were scheduled to do the 9 a.m. dive to Lapus Lapus. Since my head was pretty congested I rode the boat out with them but did not dive. I took the opportunity to do some filming of us picking them up, the island and us coming back to shore from the dive.
Eric said they had a very cooperative mantis shrimp that was standing and practically posing for photos, lots of nudibranchs, etc.
Then we came back and had lunch and headed out for another dive at 1 p.m. We were going to dive the house reef again but the current was too strong so we went to another spot called Deep Slope. It was a nice dive. We saw four pigmy seahorses, two yellow and two purple, clownfish, a wire coral shrimp, and an eel.
We headed back and had an afternoon snack and relaxed a bit before we went out again to dive at 5:15 at the lighthouse. This is the spot to dive to see mandarin fish. Eric went the night before but after he got in the water he realized he had not set the flash properly on his camera and so could not take any photos. They saw a mating pair rise up and do their business, etc. He decided he had to go back to get some photos. We were the only two divers along with our two guides that went tonight, so we had the whole show to ourselves. We actually saw three pairs mate.
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