[Mabul, Malaysian Borneo] Another beautiful sunny day. Another day at the office for Coco, our Spanish dive master. Because we had changed the earlier dive day there was some confusion so we were not sure we would be diving until the last minute. Things seem a little disorganized here, but as long as you’re patient it all kinda works out. Today was two dives on the local reef around Mabul and another on Kapala island around 15 minutes away. Unfortunately the visibility was not very good and after the experience of Sipadan yesterday the sea felt barren.

The dives were more about little critters hiding under rocks and some odd shaped bottom dwellers – the kind of stuff that we are not used to looking at. Things like the wacky crocodile fish, frog fish and leaf fish had us staring confused at random lumps until Coco outlined them for us. Divers seem to cherish spotting these guys but being new to it all we are still just looking for the big or colourful. There was some more familiar sea-life – blue spotted ray, moreys, sand rays (name?) and even a really long banded sea snake cruising the sandy bottom.

A VERY different experience but we are looking forward to getting back out to Sipadan tomorrow to search for some big stuff.

Seems we’re just writing about the dives. That’s pretty much all we have been doing. The food here hasn’t been too bad but we are looking forward to a meal without rice sometime. There are a couple of manky looking kittens that live here. They are friendly and get very excited when you fuss them and feed them and one of them really seems to like my lap.

[Pictures: Nothing on the phone. Will have to upload]

– Posted from my iPhone via WiFi