There were lots of pretty fish. Also sadly lots of rubbish and lots of people. Once we got out past the rubbish and past the fish, it was pretty good. We saw parrot fish and clown fish and lots of other pretty things that we can't name! Amelie learned to snorkel and enjoy snorkeling so that was a good accomplishment of the day. Dad and Uncle Vijay I don't think even got their feet wet. Mum looked after Jarrah playing in the shallows.
Aunty Jill and Amelie suffered the after affects of too much microscopic sea biology biting their stomachs and both were scratching for days and days after!
There was lunch on another island. Then drop off for another snorkel on the outskirts of another island where the divers were also diving. We didn't go up on the beach (after a sandfly warning) but snorkeled around that island for a bit. Unfortunately not nearly as much sea life there to see. It looked like the coral had been destroyed, apparently they still dynamite fish in the area. All very sad.
Finishing up there - we picked up the people left on the beach and headed back to the mainland. Ben couldn't bare to pay the exorbitant prices for a 5 minute taxi ride ($5 each!) and so we all walked back to the apartment, about a 60 minute walk! All of us ladies still in our swimsuits and maybe a towel. Probably not the best attire for the long walk through the shops.
Norma and Edwin visited us again that evening and brought some delicious salt fish and some other funny vegetable resembling dinyinthee also fried with saltfish. All quite delicious. She brought us a cut up pineapple - the sweetest I have ever tasted! We packed all our bags up - all the many things that the Aunties brought for us to take home. Lots of books and school supplies! Fun. But no time to look at properly.
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