I'm gonna try and give as many details in about what I've seen and done in the small amount of time I have on this speck of an island in the middle of the pacific ocean, it's a wonder mother ocean hasn't just swallowed it up by now. k so the beaches here have sand but not always the super soft kind and the ocean bottom isn't that friendly cause of the sharp jagged rocks and nasty mean coral but other than that it gets two thumbs up. Poor Georgia had never encountered coral before and got assaulted on her back. Not nice in salt water. The water is crystal clear and shimmers as the sun hits it. You can see little fishies and sea cucumbers- so many and crabs. Our friend Kent (he lives in Hawaii) says never trust a crab and it's true cause one chomped right onto my foot and it's still sore. Kent also has a waterproof digital camera so we've been having a blast with that. It's tricky for me to post pictures cause I don't have my laptop or a card reader and I didn't bring the software I need for my camera to use the cables. We're gonna visit our IT friends tomorrow and see if they can help me out with that.
The sunsets are unbelievable and would rival any national geographic.
We tried hiking to a place called Tarzan Falls - they turned out to be twice as far in but we made it to Tarzan pools which were still cool. The hike though was great! The trail head is a mall sign on the sign of the winding road. It looks like you're embarking on an Indiana Jones jeep trail into the depths of the jungle. The plants are a funny mix of coniferous and deciduous with a random palms trees all around. It's crazy to be walking and say hey look it's a mango tree. The dirt here is red so that's kinda cool too. The land is rolling hills and valleys just wrapped up in a blanket of green hues. The sun just loved us and it was like she wanted us to have the best day possible.
After that we drove down the coast of the island and outside the window we saw something amazing. It was a natural swimming hole of ocean salt water but calmer as it was enclosed with boulder rocks, kinda like a reef but very very deep. All around it on the land were permanent gazeebos and fire pits. The best part was the diving tower make of something concrete but who knows what I used to be before. Bit it's the most amazing recycled water park. To get up you first use te wooden palate ladder being held up against it with webbing and rope and then pull yourself to the top. As soon as we saw this local lparadise, we all yelled pull over and instantly started scrambling to get ready to be in the water ass soon as humanly possible. Right over those rocks you could play in the very powerful, crashing ocean waves, so basically best of both worlds.
Then we went and found a sandy beach to just hang out on, and again the best one was just on the side of the highway. We had goggles to watch all of the sea life and there was TONS! My favorite was this silver, pinky/purple fish about the side of a my hand stretched out big. He was just as intrigued and curious about me as I was him. He'd get like 7 inches away from me and then get scared and back away and then swim up closer and quickly retreat back or come up from under a rock to get a better look at me and hopefully maybe I wouldn't notice. I even went up for air about 4 times and every time I came back down he was just waiting there for me to come back and then would stare right back at me with those big, round fishy eyes. So crazy! I've never had an experience like that with a fish before!
I've gotta go - that was all of Saturday almost so I'll try and tell you all about Sunday cause it was spectacular and the members in Guam are so charitable.
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