Kwaj life!

Finally I think we have a system figured out for uploading and posting photos!  

So, without further a-do... (and in no particular order!)

The following five photos are from one of our weekend sailing trips to Bigej, and the underwater photos are from snorkeling off the boat.  

Can you spot the turtle?

This clam was beautiful... it was about 12" across, and bright, bright purple on the inside!  We've heard the clams up at Roi-Namur (one of the northern islands) are HUGE - over 5 feet!!  We want to take a trip up there one of these weekends to see for ourselves... there are free, "space available" flights daily up to the island, so we'll try to take advantage of them soon! 

The boat, named the Panacea that we've been sailing on - that's my hubby floating in the water.  :-)  Someone asked him on this trip if he was part fish; I think while we were anchored he spent more time in the water than he did on the boat!

The next two photos are from the dive we did two weekends ago on the South Kwajalein wall.  This first one is just amazing to me - the beautiful reef and the abundance of life!  This was just before we went over the wall... the diving here is beautiful!!

One of the white-tip sharks that Peter mentioned in his earlier account:

This little guy gets in on quite a bit of action over by where the fishermen feed the sharks the "leftovers" from cleaning their catches of the day.  He nibbles right along with about 30+ nurse sharks and 5 or so white-tip sharks!  I'm sure he's glad for his shell sometimes.  :)

These nurse sharks were just hanging out, waiting for their free meal...

Usn's

The hermit crabs are EVERYWHERE here!  They're so adorable; you pick them up and they squirm all around trying to find the ground beneath them.  We eventually put them back down...  :-)

Beautiful... we see rainbows 3-4 times/week. 

This beach, (above and below) is one of my favorites for finding shells at.  In fact, I just might bike over there when I finish this post to do some hunting! 

Hermit crab pile - they're all fighting over one empty shell!

Just a neat photo~

This photo is taken just off the north tip of Kwajalein.  We did our check-out dive from this location.  The buoyed area is a swimming spot called Emon beach - you'll see it better in another photo below. 

Here's a better shot of Emon beach. 

Often after Peter gets home from work and we finish our dinner, we'll take a bike ride around the island... Yesterday we hopped on our bikes, rode about 1/2 way, went back home, changed into our swimsuits and biked back to Emon beach for an evening swim.  It was beautiful.  

Next up... hopefully delivery of our pack-out this week and then some photos of the house, inside!