first dive(s)!!

First divesite of the trip set the bar. Despite not knowing the names of 99% of what I saw today, I did see my first manta ray, a couple white tipped reef sharks, octos, tons of morays and stonefish, and innumerable itsy bitsy creatures.  There was a slight learning curve this morning though, as I didn't think I'd need to adjust my harness at all; turned out I had to cinch it in quite a bit! Kind of a good thing I forgot the camera, I had my hands full already just with getting used to diving warm water. That and I couldn't figure out where the tapping sounds I heard were the guides trying to get my attention.
Since there was only one guest at the resort going diving that day, I got to go with her for the morning dives. We dropped in at a site called Batu Kapal, meaning "rock ship" named because from a distance the rock resembles a ship. There's a wall that bottoms out at about 50', then slopes off  past 100'. Slight current, nothing major. Next dive was at the same site, but just of the point where there's a nice pinnacle that dropped to about 70' then dropped further. Near the end of the dive the current started picking up again. The pinnacle is situated a bit off shore so we had a couple converging currents blowing us around (i thought it was fun).
After returning to the resort and eating some lunch I met with Dimpy the house biologist and she showed me around the house reef. The following are a couple pictures I took. My first underwater batch!