Just come back from doing some surveys in Zamboanga del Norte (in Mindanao, but don’t tell the FCO!). My regular dive buddy has gone back to the UK, so I was diving with some guys who work for the fisheries office in Dapitan. They fixed a very Filipino lunch for us - fresh barbecued parrotfish and pork wrapped in banana leaves with saw-sawan (a make-it-yourself sauce with vinegar, soy sauce, calamansis and chillis) and of course, lots of rice. Yum.
The diving was great, but the weather was miserable - cold and rainy all week, and it’s supposed to be summer here!
Becks is a marine ecology PhD student, living in Queensland (Australia), Dumaguete (Philippines) and London (UK). Marinegirl is her online alter-ego. She dreamt her up as as super-gorgeous superhero saving the underwater world (if you've seen Captain Planet, you get the idea). She is not, and never will be, in the marines.