25th May 2011

Booked on the early morning boat, Si, Thais and I got our dive kit ready and headed down to the boat.  Todays dive sites were ‘White Rock’ and then Twins.

The first dive was good, Simon led.  The visibility was good and we spotted at least half a dozen blue spotted rays and a big Giant Puffer.  The only downside was that there were a lot of Trigger fish which seemed to very unhappy and made both Thais and I a bit uneasy.   Si seemed to be totally oblivious of one which shot past his head and circled around him.... Then just before our safety stop I spotted a trigger feeding in our dive path and signalled Si, but before he had chance to even look down, the trigger had swam up, hit his chest and gone back down.   Si was not too pleased as you can imagine.

At Twins, we dropped down and headed over to the coral nurseries to see how they were doing as the water has been 30/31 degrees as we’re hoping that we’re not going to get any major bleaching.  Fortunately only 3 or 4 had bleached fully, others were looking a bit pale, but all in all, they were all looking pretty healthy. Fingers crossed the water temperature will not rise any further.

Oh yes, we did try and find Thais’s ring which she’d dropped a week or so ago, but I think by now, someones either found it or it’s been buried in the sand.  The remainder of our time, we circled the shallow pinnacle, did our safety stop and surfaced.  These were Thais’s last dives as she was leaving the next morning.

Back at Crystal we gathered on the decking and completed log books and then presented Thais with her Reef Check & Marine Resource Management certificates. 

Tonight is ECO Film night, so Si’s playing episode 5 of ‘The Human Planet’ after the open water movies.