Day 5:

We started out with a little breakfast morning then right into class. We continued with a little history session. Found out that Spain sold off all of Micronesia, except Guam and The Philippians, to the Germans. Germany really did not colonize the area; they just wanted it for the recourses. They did make some passages through the coral areas and that is why we have German channel. When WW I broke out Japan being one of our allies fought the Germans in the South Pacific then after the war they were able to lay claim to Micronesia, but were not allowed to fortify the islands. We ended our history lesion there. The other items covered this time around was marketing of live-a-boards and comparing the two we got to visit. Once again it is time to get wet.

Dive 1: Chuyo Maro: This was a Japanese supply ship which now has several different types of corals growing on it. May favorite coral was the bubble coral. I snapped a shot on one that had some strange yellow film on some of its lobes. When I got back to the room and checked out the pictures I noticed there were two small almost transparent shrimps one it. It is always nice to take a picture of something and later find out that you captured a bonus critter. Now it is time to go do our surface interval. This time we are going to Jellyfish Lake What a unique site. They say there are about 10 million jellies in this saltwater lake. The nice thing is they do not sting; they grow their food on them. They grow their food on them. Jelly fish kind of freak me out being they do not have eyes and I can’t see where their brain would be. But they still swim, eat, and reproduce, Strange. Let’s go diving again.

Dive 2: Ngerchong Inside: This was a nice peaceful dive. No currents, no real surge just a smooth dive. I got a couple of sweet pictures of a goby with its resident blind shrimp. It was cool just watching the shrimp clean out the hole in the sand while the goby sat outside keeping a watchful eye for predators. We also ran across a cuttlefish. It was not sure about us, it just slowly moves away while all the strange people approach and take their pictures. The poor cuttlefish must have been blinded with all the strobes going off. The other fascinating creature we saw was a white leaf scorpion fish. It was kind of small and in a crevice, I was not sure if I was able to get a good picture of it. But checking out the photos later, they did not turn out to bad.

For dinner tonight we had Thai food. Not bad I am not a big curry eater but I lived. I figured if I can handle fruit bat I should be able to handle the red, green and yellow curry food. The result was, I can skip the curry stuff in the future, but I did leave the restaurant full.
It is time to go to bed; we have another full day tomorrow. More seminars and more diving, tomorrow we are going to chandelier cave. That should be fun day of learning and diving.