I went for three dives on different reefs off-shore from Miri today. Total of 2 hours 50 min in the water btwn 10 and 18 metres. Very calm and clear. Saw a lot of spectacular corals and anenomes as well as a lot of the pretty tropical fish you would expect. Highlights were probably the size and colour of the anenomes and clown fish. Second dive saw several enormous scarlet anenomes hosting large similarly coloured clown fish. They are not all of the Nemo variety. Also encountered a decent size barracouta and school of unicorn fish. A number of colourful nudibranches and bright blue lobsters (with white antennae) were seen. There were 7 divers on the boat - the two Malaysian dive leaders, two local divers, a couple of Aussies who have been diving in various spots around Malaysia and Indonesia + me.
Another interesting aspect was seeing the oil rigs out there - boats are not allowed within half a km of the rigs. The black speck on horizon in the picture above is an oil rig :-)
Apparently whale sharks are often seen on these dives, but not today. Also ran into a school of small squid. Very cool.
Time to crash - only up late to see whether BBC World Service will say anything about the NZ-Paraguay game. Not a mention. - Harold
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