waiting

Hi all, let's see.... it's pouring rain, we've checked out of our room, the girls are playing bananagrams and of course I am writing this down . We are at the dive shop restaurant ( spent alot of time here ) waiting for our boat to come and pick us and take us back to the mainland and our waiting van, for the 3 hr trip back to Cebu airport for our flight at 130am to fukuoka, japan.So we have about 3 hrs to kill, hopefully the rain stops, cause the boat in the rain could be a little uncomfortable.
  Yesterday, our last day diving, and erica's birthday, we did the shark dive, the best one yet!! lots of sharks all around us.For the 2nd morning dive, we dove a seamount, pygmy seahorses and ....a blue ring octopus, which I find out later are quite poisonous. The last dive is a shallow dive just mucking around the bottom looking for stuff. Found lots, pipefish, stonefish, cuttlefish and seamoths ( they must be mating because they are travelling around in pairs )A really good last dive here.
  Then back here last night for dinner and swap war stories about divers with some of the staff here. Some of my best stories. It's been fun here, we weren't able to see as much as we would have liked to, which is usually the case when we travel and we really didn't get to experience as much of phillipine culture as we would have liked. But we can always plan to come back. Next stop japan and the home of my ancestors, should be interesting, will keep you updated.

love and warm thoughts from malapasqua

carrie, erica and glen