Our First Dive In Loon

Our first Dive on the Reefs of Loon, Bohol was on January 19th, 2009. We wanted to dive right in front of our house, where there is a "Fish Sanctuary". It's an area which is marked with buoys and it's not allowed to fish here. I don't know how ever, how much the local fishermen care about this.
Unfortunately, there is a mangrove forest here on the shoreline and the reef itself, where it actually goes down is about 500 metres from shore. Since we dont't have our own boat yet, we had to rent a small Pumb Boat and somebody who would bring us out. The boats here are very small and without engine, so only my wife and the equipment could go in the boat, I had to swim all the way out.
But finaly we made it and went to our very first dive in an area, where probably nobody else has ever dived before. Visibility was nbit so good on this day, we had only about 10 metres but we went down to a depth of 25 meters for about 40 minutes and there are some nices corals down there. The reef is not destroyed and fully intact so it's a real pleasure to dive here. I made a few pictures and a short video on this dive but nothing special, just for the memory on our first dive.
Picture shows the small boat we used, loaded with our equipment and my wife getting ready. We even had some spectators.