Well, one year has passed already
since Mark and I were married! Time
really does fly when you are having
fun!
We celebrated our anniversary by
going to Palau, to dive the spectacular
water there. Spectacular it was, we saw
sharks on every dive except for the two
wreck dives that we did. There were a
few rays, lots of beautiful corals, soft
and hard. Many, many fish of all sizes
and colors too, and of course the cute
turtles!
As some of you know, I am a big
Survivor fan so, it was really cool to be
there and see some of the things the
Survivor cast did. One of our dive
masters, Dexter, was telling us stories
of the Survivor filming, it was very
interesting. We even got to see the
outrigger canoes that they used!
We got to go to Jelly fish lake, a
landlocked lake that occurred when
the rock islands rose up out of the
Sea, trapping the jelly fish.
It was so surreal, they would swim right
up to us, you could feel them hit your
bare skin, They have no predators, so
they have lost their ability to sting, they
are slimy and soft, their bodies pulsate
all around you, it is just awesome to be
able to swim with them! There are
millions of them, all around you! They
follow the sun across the lake to feed
the algae within them. At night they go
to the bottom of the lake which is full of
toxic levels of nitrogen, it keeps the
algae alive within them. It was so
fascinating!
We met so many nice people, from all
different areas, Julie and her husband
Mike, were from the Marshall islands,
they are Radar engineers, then there
was the other Julie and her husband
Bob, they were from California, Julie
dives, Bob doesn't so, he went along
on a boat ride while we all went diving.
He is an avid golfer, so we invited them
to come to Saipan and stay with us for
awhile, he can golf, Julie can dive!
We also met Carolyn and Steve, from
California, (they were originally form
Brooklyn) just a few of the people we
met!
We had a wonderful time seeing the
islands and the sights there.
The weather was much like it is here in
Saipan, sunny and warm, we had a few
showers come down on us and it
actually got chilly riding in the boat,
while it was raining.
We spent Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday diving, then we rented a car
to tour the island on Friday.
It was very interesting. There is not
much to do on the island itself, other
than dive and fish, there are no Movie
theatres, no Bowling alleys, there are a
few sport courts and there was a paint
ball area. We drove around looking at
a few of the artifacts on the island, and
we went to the museum. It was very
interesting.
One of the places we went had a
building called a Bai, a communal
meeting place where the men used to
talk about fishing, hunting, etc. The
Bai we visited had some of the original
structure. it had a thatched roof and is
made without nails. It was very cool to
be standing in this building that had so
much meaning, and been there for so
long. There were stone pathways all
around, leading to and from the Bai
and the surrounding villages.
We saw some pretty cool sights, met a
lot of cool people, had a lot of fun!!
There apparently is not too much to do
on the island,but Dive, fish and do a
little partying....The Palauans like to
party!
We were amazed by the Wreck dives
as there were still old Morphine bottles,
helmets, guns and lots of other
artifacts down there, it makes you feel
kind of strange, just to know that men
died on the wrecks many, many years
ago.
We enjoyed Palau very much and look
forward to going back someday.
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| Palau May 2005 & January 2007 |
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