Christi awoke feeling brave. “I can do it. I can clean the fish” she chanted to herself. She pulled the fish out of the refrigerator and pulled out an instruction book. Hmmm”¦. How do I know if I follow the small fish directions or the flat fish directions? It isn’t clear how small “small fish” is. She grabbed a different instruction book, but it was no clearer. Both books used technical language that she couldn’t comprehend. This was a desperate situation. Time was ticking on the Continue reading →

When we arrived for lunch, we kind of expected to be eating with the other hotel guests and have to pay for our meal. It turns out the hotel was empty and our host, Raymond, was simply looking for company.

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This morning we began the day with another dive, this time on the ocean side of the north pass. This was definitely our best dive yet. The coral here was extremely colorful — light blue, lavender, bright yellow, dark yellow, black, white, various shades of beige. No single color was dominant. The coral also had a lot of variety in shapes, including some formations that looked almost flower-like in addition to all the shapes we had seen before.

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S 16-03.4 by W 145-37.6 – This morning we went scuba diving. Special Blend had highly recommended the Fakarava Dive Center and we had booked an appointment the day before while in town. The dive master and his wife picked us up from Kosmos and took us out to a reef inside the lagoon near the north pass. It was just the two of us. The dive master adjusted Christi’s weights, saying she had too much. We loaded into our gear and jumped in.

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