ahevepluto ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶: April 2009

Date: 8th April - 12th April 2009

Location: Philippines, Legaspi, Donsol

Stay: Giddy's Place

Divers: James, Pauline, Glenn, Uncle Pwa, Felix, Natalie, Cynthia, Kym, Angel, Yours Truly.

Outdated post... So let the photos do the blogging...

It had a GREAT start - my boss sent me to the airport from work at 10pm!::

Surprisingly saw Shujun at Buget Terminal too! She's going to Philippines too! But different dive location-Anilao. Sat same plane, same row!::The impatient divers waiting for transit at Manila Airport::What a sight of our accomodation upon arrival!!! HOTEL SERIOUSLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION::ChaoBin "Smelly-face" James counting money ar..::Love Love, FIRST sighting of whaleshark on DAY1! My Canon camera broke its virginity by great shot! (amazingly, after the sightings that I realised I didnt clip my casing properly, luckily it didnt died a virgin)::

After a noon of whaleshark, time for land activities before dinner... Fireflies watching! Rare to get this picture, firefly opened its wings!::

Just fascinated me to see my breakfast to be served this way... Knife STUCK onto the mango seed. Dont they know I had a hard time separating them??? What a long wait for the breakfast..::

DAY 2 was diving at Sam Miguel. Called "The three caves", "Rebecca's Garden" and "Lawrence's Reef". My little boat group::Caught the catfishes.. As usual, makes me dizzy by their moves....:::Have always love nudis::Porcelain crabbie::James, looking pervertish, pee-ing in the boat's toilet. His whatever-output can be seen lor!!!::Boxers and Lionfish::And then the boxers::And the popfish who refused to look at me::And on the 1hr way back was AGONY. Cold and wet::

Oh, the housekeepers displayed my Frog this way::

DAY 3 diving at Manta Bowl without Mantas, so took a lionfish instead::

And we started the "neh mind" joke... which means nevermind by pointing to the breasts and followed by the head::

And oh, this young muscular looking boatboy, Michael dove into the sea to retrieve my mask when I dropped it. All of us are already in our BCDs and none of us could move on that pathetically little boat. He was fast! Without him, I wont be able to spot the Manta and following day WHALESHARKS!::

This time smarter already, we dabao towels for the way back! It's a freaking 2 hours ride! But still wet and super cold::

DAY 4, back to snorkelling to find the WHALESHARK.. So many boats!!! URGH::

Definitely a much longer wait than our first day.... To the extend I camwhore on boat while Cynthia fell asleep waiting....::

A close up sight, as good as touching it::

And guess which part of the whaleshark is this??::

For the above ans... it's its eye. And I got so frightened I only remembered shouting "i dont want liao! i dont want liao!" REALLY, just like the MolaMola experience I encountered years back. Too close to me lar!!! @#@#$@#% And I got abandoned by my own boat so I jumped boat to the other one!::

Thank you dive guides and whaleshark spotter!!! (Whaleshark spotter very cute, he was so stressed when I made him promised 5 whalesharks in a group.. But all of us were sooo happy we had the ultra close up encounter with one full grown whaleshark. He was very happy too!)::

JAmes had this for lunch right after the whaleshark sightings.. EEEWWW::

And some of us went for a walk in town..... While the rest had massages in the hotel. The view right outside our hotel::

Serious boh??!! Town so small also take map leh!::

Just kept stuffing bread into our mouths, hungry::

Retirement plans???::

This freaking water pumper is super hard to pump okie?!?! ALthought there are like young kids demonstrating to us but it was my first try in my entire life mah!!::

Cute little local boy and friendly mama we saw at their house::

James figured it's faster to carry me across the bridge than to wait and follow behind me, damn! And so he did! Freaky!!! And why are they all in sunglasses and never warn me to wear too??::