Why another dive?
Despite yesterday’s disappointing dive, I chose to do another dive today. It was an easy way to kill lots of waiting time:
- Checkout is at 1000 and my ferry is at 1730 back to Mahe for a 2355 flight to Singapore (via Dubai and Colombo).
- It’s a little touch and go to fit in a snorkelling excursion. A single dive at EUR55 seems like a good deal; it is half the price of a snorkelling excursion.
- It also gives me free transport from the hotel to the ferry (via the dive centre); doing that by taxi is about half the price of a dive (but I’d catch the bus).
Based on that, I booked for another single dive tomorrow. It takes up most of my available time (leaving some for beaching and swimming) and also resolves all my transport. Fingers crossed, I will have better luck with their choice of dive sites.
Diving at Red Point
I checked out of my guesthouse at 0830 and was collected by Octopus Divers again. There was only one other diver this morning.
Fortunately, the diving was much better than yesterday. There was a school of what I thought were Napoleon Wrasses, but I was told they were humpback parrotfish (which are of the same family). There were about 20 of those ginormous creatures in the school.
There were also quite a few octopuses, a black-tip shark and mantis shrimp (amongst plenty of other creatures).
I was very pleased that I had chosen to come back for another dive. I had also had time to spend swimming and lazing on the beach until departing for the ferry, Mahe and then Dubai-Colombo-Singapore.