Crinkly III Philippines adventure day 3 - Diving to sea some thresher sharks (7/24/19)

Wake up at 4am and make our way down to the shop in the rain so we can make our way out to Monad Shoal to hopefully see some thresher sharks (the sharks with the long sweeping tails). Its a beautiful sky with the clouds from the morning rains as the sun rises. Go down and they have a few areas where you can sit and hopefully see sharks. We actually get to see 5 which was cool but they are some weird/sad looking creatures. 

Partner boat and us set sail in the wee hours... blessed with a beautiful sky to enjoy the long ride out. 

Let the views begin

So many colors... stunning.

Fiery sky with a boat cruising in the water

We have reached the spot, clearly this is why people come to this island.

Made it back to our lil island after our dive

Look how clear that water is...

Crinkly and I posing with animated thresher sharks

Crinkly is ready for some more diving

Crinkly getting suited up

View of the northern part of the island from sea

Crinkly enjoying the views

More wonderful views

Crinkly met a horsy friend

Day being book-ended with amazing cloud action with sun set and rise. 

Jeff enjoying the sky

Younger bro and a wonderful sky line. Good times.

Come back to the island and grab breakfast at the shop (found out they have this great french toast deal that comes with a drink (either smoothy or iced coffee drink) so I get that and it is delicious. Head back out on the boat and do some dives at Chocolate island and Lapus 1 which both had some similar creatures as yesterday but the amount and diversity isnt nearly as great as it is so close to the island compared to the place yesterday which was 45mins by boat from the main island. Get back and relax back at the dive shop with some dinner before heading out for our night dive. This dive has a strong current and instead of going with it our guide has us fighting it to see things which gives both of us these huge headaches from overexertion. Didnt get to see much either, it was a few cuddle fish and urchins and a bunch of crabs just burying themselves as we come to see them. Once we get back, we drink a bunch of water and head to bed by about 9 to sleep off the headache.