3rd December 2006 - Lucky Lucky Days!!!!!! And Happy Birthday Jimmy!!!!

weather: sunny
sea condition: calm vis: 20m

Guides: Bobby, Jay, Lee

Happy birthday to you,
You were born in the zoo,
With monkeys and elephants,
And smell like one too!!!!

Happy Birthday Jimmy!!!!!!



Jimmy's birthday dinner with all divemasters and Yuki and Asako-san.

Kampaii!!!

Crazy crazy day today!!!! It was one of the most evenful day today for our divers here at SWV today. This morning, Bobby's group saw a hammerhead and a manta ray during the first dive in Sipadan and in the second dive the same group saw a manta ray again and a devil ray!! Other than that, they also saw the school of barracudas. While Jay's group saw a school of bumphead parrotfish feeding in the first dive. To add to that, Lee's group saw a leopard shark during the third dive in Sipadan. Cool right??!!

Manta Ray. Picture by Asako


Manta ray. Picture by Noda Kazunori

Hammerhead shark. Picture by Neil Atterbury

For macros, today has been interesting as well with frogfish, pymgy, pink squat lobster, baby clown sweetlips and gobies. But that's not all, the most interesting find today for macro are a pair of harlequin shrimp and a blue ring octopus!!!! Unbelievable!!! It's like the gems of both the macro and the big stuff are all here today!!!

Harlequin shrimp. Picture by Noda Kazunori

Harlequin shrimp. Picture by Noda Kazunori