August and
September are typically the two hit-and-miss months here in Anilao with regards
to the weather – and this year was no different. A few near perfect days, a few terrible days
and everything in between made for some interesting diving conditions.
We had James
from Malaysia with us for the start of the month, completing his Advanced
Sidemount course in very challenging, wet and windy conditions. Diving conditions were still fine over at the
secluded Secret Bay site, this site is really for macro photographers rather
than non-photography diving but a slightly sloping sand bottom also makes for a
great training site.
A free
couple of days in the middle of the month gave us the perfect chance to re-plan
the 110m dive that had originally been planned for a few weeks earlier with
Alex from MDA and JM from Ocean Player in Cebu.
It was great to get back in the water with two such accomplished divers
and join them putting their new Trimix skills into action on their first
sub-100m dives.
