^ Dylan from KTD diving next to a Manta Ray.

We woke naturally around 7-8am today and started to prepare for our morning Manta expedition. After a hot drink and a small cereal breakfast, we got into our gear and headed out in the dinghy. The sun was shining and the seas were calmer so we were feeling optimistic.

Once in the channel, we realised the seas weren't quite as calm as we'd thought though and our dinghies were rolling around quite a bit. We all jumped in to snorkel with the mantas again and quickly dispersed in the water.

Charles was keeping a keen eye on the current and saw that it was in fact a lot stronger than it had been a couple of days ago. He swam back to KTDs dinghy and untied it from ours and then went around retrieving a few of us who'd got into trouble being dragged by the current - it was running at 3-4 knots we estimated.

Luke and Rob joined us shortly after we arrived and also found the current troublesome to swim against. After they had carried out their ID process, they assisted us by pointing out where the mantas were. We think there were three feeding in the channel today and we managed to have some close encounters with them again, however, water quality wasn't quite as clear as it had been before.

Exhilarated and also tired after a couple of hours' intense swimming, we made our way back to the boats. Another hot drink was in order and some cookies to refill our energy stocks.

Lunch was a yummy tuna salad with crackers and homemade humous, all put together by Joy.

We then sunbathed in the afternoon, read books, practised Morse code and Josh worked.

In the evening Matt and Jade made rotis to accompany a bean beef chilli with rice and cheese. After dinner, Josh, Matt and Jade had a quick moonlight dip in the water off the back of the boat which was eerily beautiful.

Then we all settled down to the film "Lord of the Flies" in the cockpit - a somewhat dated film and one we won't be in a hurry to watch again!