Another lazy day

I had set the day aside free for lazing around, doing an excursion I hadn’t thought of or in case the previous days had been wet.  But with my flu growing I decided to do nothing.  In any case, the only excursion remaining around here were:

• an Island Hopping trip including dolphin watching (from boat), Balicasag Island and Virgin Island.  Virgin Island was the only one new to me at with an 0600 report it wasn’t a goer for me.
• a whaleshark watching trip in Oslob, Cebu whicn would require a 0530 start.  It was more money than I’d like to spend at a total of PHP2000.  However, it is a “guaranteed” affair as they feed the whalesharks.  A little fake for some people!

I stayed indoors till lunchtime when I headed out for a light meal.  I checked out the length of the beach after lunch and found a broad quiet spot at one end where I could put my stuff near some trustworthy people.  I walked into the clear water and it was just perfect in temperature.  There was a bit of green seagrass near the water’s edge but it wasn’t a bother.  The deep blue parts of the water was due to more seagrass underneath in the deeper areas.

A Spanish couple Manuel and Adriana chatted me up.  They’re from Oslo.  We got talking and seemed to have lots of common interests in travel and diving.  Manuel was a dive instructor and had done 400+ dives around the world and he says there’s nowhere like Sipadan.  “You might as well die now and die happy.  There’s no need to dive anywhere else unless it is a specialty dive like sharks, mantas etc.  Even Cozumel in Mexico isn’t anything like it”.  Right, I’ve heard it from someone with authority!

I must have spent about 2 hours in the water chatting with them.  A bit longer than I had prepared myself for in terms of sun protection so I was a little red.  But it was heavenly in the warm clear calm water.  I returned to my room for my rest; I had admin to do but I lacked the motivation perhaps due to my flu.

For dinner, I attempted a healthy meal of fish fillets with broccoli.  It didn’t quite work out as the fish was battered and fried.  In the dim light, the worn photos on the billboard wasn’t very clear and I thought it was unbattered fillets.