Another beautiful day on the island- we are all lazy and sleep in. We had to be to the dive shop by 9:30 to get our gear ready.  We each only have masks with us so have to rent the rest of the equipment.  All the gear (mask, fins, snorkel, BCD and wet suit) go into milk crates that we have to load onto the boat.

Again it was a jump from boat to boat entry onto ours.  Everyone works together so really not that bad- the dive shop is right on the harbor so super easy to walk to pier.

It was about a 30 min ride to the dive spot- Max did great today although Mae is fighting a cold, she will be snorkeling again.  We switched up dive buddies- me with Max and Rob with Zach.  Trying to tie the bunny boys down.  It actually did work great- well, except for the fact that Max did not check that my air was on before the 2nd dive.  The dive master re-checks us and one of the boat crew also check that air is on before we jump into the sea.  I would have figured it out immediately and since we descend so slowly no chance of drowning.

Beautiful dive- around a rock/coral formation.  We were down about 40 minutes- much more coral than yesterday and the sea ws calmer.  We had on our boat a dive master from the shop who was down taking pictures/video’s. Literally the second we all got onto the boat she called out that there was a whale shark in the water- we all grabbed snorkel/fins and mask and dove right back into the sea.  Visibility was not the best- it was hard to see the sea bottom.  The light was bouncing off the bottom of the sea in what looked like a reverse Northern Light show- it was beautiful.  We puttered around for about 30 minutes.  He never came back but we got to see footage from her camera.  Every divers dream…………..not ours today.

2nd dive was about a 20 min ride from 1st site- very nice dive.  Lots of fish and healthy coral.

Back to the hotel- boys like to go to the restaurant for a late light lunch then vedge by the pool- Rob, Mae and I stayed down by the pier and grabbed something to eat.  Back to the hotel- Rob and Mae took naps and I joined the boys by the pool to read.  The hotel is mostly empty- there is a big family group (maybe 15 people) of what looks like Mainland Chinese.

We went to an Italian restaurant for dinner- boys went off to shop before dinner arrived- they had yummy pizza and gnocchi for Max.  Owned and run by an Italian guy-

We had our usual nightly massage after dinner- such a great way to end the day!