2 year to the day I sat on a mountain top cafe a couple hour drive outside of Manila, Philippines with a head cold that frankly, I don't understand how it never turned to something a whole lot worse. I just remember being so fucking cold and having to, once again, eat some shitty luke-warm Filipino dish. I remember drinking about 10 cups of coffee just to try and to contend with the chills. We had caught the tale end of a typhoon upon arriving in Manila and only a week earlier had a rockin and rollin earthquake in Bay-Bay, Leyte. Oh the crazy days.............
About 2/3 of the school was circling around Ryan, while the rest of them were cruising over, behind and under me. You also have to realize I only caught the tail end of the circling on video. A lot of the Ulua had already stopped circling and were cruising out into the blue before I had started filming. I would say there was somewhere around 400+ Ulua altogether, most of them being around 30-50 lbs but a good number of large ones being close to 100 lbs. It was pretty amazing to catch a glimpse of 3 of them out of the corner of my eye and then by the time I looked up, several hundred of them buzzing past me at mock 10 speed and being able to feel the water rushing by me. Talk about a serious pack of wolves out for some blood; I'm pretty sure every fish on the reef was shaking in there shoes. I know I was.