Happy Tax Day (4/15)

Happy tax day, America!  I couldn't feel farther away from all that is going on! And that isn't necessarily a bad thing! :-). It is a treat really.

We are about to have our dive briefing for today. We will have two dives along a place called Wohoff Island, then move on to a new place.
Breakfast update: we are down to the last of the homemade brown bread and will just have white, which is totally fine with me.  On the good news side, they have started making eggs to order :-) yay! I'm getting my scrambled eggs fix. They also made omelettes with red jam - no!!

Still more pickled tuna, spicy veggies, tomatoes, etc for breakfast.

Lunch today was spaghetti and of course, fish.  After the second dive, some of us went to a very secluded beach and walked along it.  There were some woven things so people have visited there before us. Super cool.  Darlene got photos but I didn't take my camera.

I couldn't believe the beauty of the dives today!! This third one after moving the boat was an absolute rainbow of colors! Red Crinoids, the palest of pale yellow corals that looked so fragile, what I am calling sea sunflowers with a more vibrant yellow, oranges, pale to dark greens, some lime green, fuzzy pale green corals that made me think of cauliflower, and electric blues and periwinkles and deep purples.

Favorite scenes this dive day were the sweet lips (little dancing fish that is just so happy it can't contain itself),a deep purple Spanish dancer, a small lavender nudibranch, false clownfish playing in the anemone, jumbo gigantic Moray eel, the manta shrimp, and the spectacular colors!

Now I'm all showered up and going to pass on the night dive and just wait 3 hours for supper! I think a nap and stretching are in order.

Dinner included beef for once! Yay! It was curried but it was still good. The other options were tofu and unidentifiable. As always, the white rice was great!

Everyone decided to skip the night dive and enjoy our boat parking place here in paradise. We keep remarking how it feels like we are on a massive smooth lake, since it is often as still as glass, and how utterly wonderfully alone we are.  There are no other dive boats, just the occasional fisherman. We are absolutely alone. Which calls for a dance party after dinner! :-)  The kitchen gals have been ultra outgoing today and they joined in.  Grace and Nya were in the middle of it all, but Daisy had to work so she didn't join in.   Also, Holly brought back a coconut shell from the island and with help from Shaggy, turned it into a toy for the bird. I wonder if the other groups pay this bird so much attention.  

Enough for one full day.  Good night from who knows where!