Underwater Images from our Puerto Galera Trip, Aug 03

We returned to PG for four days of diving in Aug 03. The weather was less friendly than in June, with rain on two of these days; but there were no storms, so managed to dive all four days, with a total of 12 day dives plus a night dive on the third day. Visibility was 10-15m on average, and the water temperature a comfortable 28-29 degrees.

As before, we stayed at the Atlantis dive resort; the dive-masters were, on different dives, Hilary, Bernard, and the experienced Alan (who spotted the Anglerfish and the Frogfish). An advantage of diving PG is that sites are 3-5 min by boat, except if you go to Verde. Food at Atlantis, esp pizza, pastas, fresh fruit juices etc. make topside life just that much nicer.

We dived the canyons 3 times, and did the Sabang wrecks, the disintegrating St Christopher wreck, Monkey beach, Sinan Digan wall, Coral cove and Hole-in-the-wall (twice). On one dive at West Escarcio, we drifted with some pretty strong currents.

The photos are, in general, not as good as on the first trip, but we did get a few nice shots. Still using my Olympus C5050 in the PT-015 housing, and no external strobe (too bad, since a decent strobe would really have helped with the turtle photos.) Also, without a strobe, I cannot use my EN wide-angle attachment.


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