The weather on the island was great. Although a bit dry and warm the breeze helps to cool you down just nice. For the past few days I have been gazing at the open sea of Layang-Layang hoping to catch a glimpse of dolphin’s pod. Even though still none for the moment I am sure the time will come when we get to enjoy their playfulness chasing the wave and race the boat.
Today however we were finally given the green light by Jasper to do one dive to check out on one of the best dive site on the resort, the infamous Gorgonian Forest. After an hour of last minute check on our my dive gears which seem very happy to give me some troubles such as regulator free flowing and the BCD inflator that never seem to work, we were finally ready to take our first plunge into the site.
With Averil as the leading Dive Master and me and Nelly as the member of the team we planned a short 30 minutes dive. The boat trip was a bit choppy from the channel to the site.
Approximately around 10:15am all of us were already underwater. The Water temperature was just nice at 27 centigrade. Current however was fast and steady. We chose to enter the water a bit further behind to have more accuracy on the entry point. The first 5 minutes we were swimming towards the blue water with anticipation of bumping into something great. Surgeon fish lining up with the blue background along with school of fusiliers indicating presence of currents. Just after about a minute later at 27 meters, we finally spotted a scalloped hammerhead shark gliding gracefully amidst the fishes and seemed curious at the sight of three of us. It stayed around for a minute before decided we were not that interesting(that hurts). Luckily, it made another circle before heading towards the reef leaving us drifting to the other direction. It was amazing. To make it better, one gray reef shark approached from behind to have closer look at us.
10 minutes later, after heading back to the beautiful reef slope we were greeted by a school of bigeye trevally underneath us along with few white tip reef sharks lazying on the the reef. As if those were not enough we spotted 2 eagle rays gracefully glide over us followed by a devil ray.
Once we were approaching the Point however, we were facing a bit of a down current which had sent us out again before pushing us back to the slope. Again, it brought us to another smaller school of bigeye trevally just over the top of the slope.
All the excitement have made us realized of how much you don’t realize the time as by then, it was already time to end the dive. It felt short.
I am still anticipating for bigger surprise as for tomorrow, we will dive into one of my favorite site, Wrasse Strip the site full of surprises and beauty. Come back again for more update on Layang-Layang action and surprises.
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