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2010 Borneo

Day 4 – Mabul

Sunday 16 May 2010

We had breakfast, again it is buffet style before heading down to the jetty to get on our boat with the same crew and divers as yesterday.

Dive 1:  Lobster Wall:  I didn’t get to see much as my low pressure inflator hose decided to only work intermittently,  so I went back in as I was worried it would not work when I really needed it later in the dive and better to be safe than sorry.  Scott went back in with one of the dive masters and caught up with the group, but it was a short dive for him and he didn’t bother with the camera etc.  We headed back to the Borneo Divers jetty for our surface interval and were faced with cakes and coffees.  I can see we aren’t going to lose much weight on this trip.

Dive 2:  Old House Reef:  Which was again close to where we were and so full of fish it was great.  No corals, just loads and loads of fish.  There were loads of old boats and obviously the houses that used to be there and it was slowly being taken over by the sealife.  This was a dive of approximately 20m and again the water temperature was a lovely 29 degrees, we have begun to realise it is going to be hard to dive in Perth again. 

Just to prove we are both ghere and scuba diving :-)
Just to prove we are both ghere and scuba diving 🙂

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We had another surface interval for lunch where you head back into the main dining hall of the resort for a large buffet lunch.

Dive Three:  Eel Garden:   this dive is approximately 22 metres and was once the site for dynamite fishing, which has since been banned, but the damaging effects are still visible on the corals.  You see coral and then straight away there is a large gaping hole of nothing.  This was another fantastic drift dive but again so much to see.  There were eels, fish, corals, anemone’s, turtles, pipes etc.  Although you can see the damage, it is slowly regenerating, but not within our lifetime.

Back at the jetty was the manic wash everything down including ourselves after a day in salt water.  We had a couple of hours to kill before dinner, so did the usual housekeeping of frantically charging batteries ready for diving tomorrow.