Vacation in the Islands

 So Christmas vacation is a little different than I'm used to in Palau...instead of going sledding, we went snorkeling.  We got to go to different reefs and dive spots--this time we went to "Blue Corner," which is the Mecca for people who like to dive.  There were so many amazing things to see there.  Someone got a video of an eel, although I didn't get to see it.  But there were sea turtles, and at least two sharks!  It might make some people nervous, but generally the sharks are pretty harmless here, and we were swimming with them!  With my new GoPro (thanks to the Christmas benevolence of my parents), I got some pictures underwater of a shark and a few other fish.

Feeding the fish at "The Cemetery"

The sharks were just circling around with the fish

Unfortunately sharks weren't the only creatures in the water.  Some people swam through schools of baby jellyfish that gave baby jellyfish stings.  I felt a few, but other people actually had itchy sting-marks to remember the day by.


We also got to see a gorgeous rainbow suspended above us in the sky.  We got some nice pictures, and even when a cloud drifted over the rainbow, in a few minutes we could see it emerge again--the cloud had covered it so we couldn't see it for a short time, but it was still there.  Maybe a lesson in that?

Anyway, I know that a lot of people would pay an arm and a leg to be here for the holidays, so I tried to enjoy it.  The islands were beautiful, and the day was amazing.  God sure made some incredible places...

Sunset at the end of the day