Went Snorkeling

We went out to the reef to do some snorkeling with some people we met on the island: Jeremy, Gia, Budi, and Eko.


Gia taking her first jump in.


Jeremy taking it to the bottom.


Self-portrait from just beneath the surface of the water.


Budi hanging out on the boat...he was kinda scared.


Camille took this one of Eko, me, Gia, and Jeremy from the boat.


Budi finally got in the water, but I think it was a little cold for his taste...though I thought it was warm.


I love the way this photo of Jeremy came out.


The bulbous, smoothing looking coral was huge. It is hard to tell in the photo but it was bigger than a person with outstretched arms and legs.


...between two worlds.


I think this photo was of Eko exploring the reef.


Gia swimming in place...if you could have only seen...



She used the lifejacket to float on the surface and look at everything from above.


I hate when my thumb gets in the photos!


As you can see behind me, this was a pretty popular diving spot.



This was my attempt to get a shot with both above water and underwater images.





We brought bags with bread with us to toss about a bit so that the fish would come close. What resulted was hundreds of colorful fish nibbling on our toes!



The departure and return.



Seaweed, coral, and fish.



It may seem like it was dark from some of these photos, but I assure you, the water was very clear, albeit it was a little muggy from the morning rain.




Some shots of my underwater ballet.


Gia on the way back to the boat.


Me throwing out some left over bread.



This is one of the boat drivers who decided to take a swim around.


Me by that huge piece of coral I mentioned before.


Budi decided to get in the water one last time before we left.


Getting ready to leave.



Jeremy and I decided to swim under the glass-bottom part of the boat.



We found a deep area with no coral and took some jumps off the boat.


And they finally able to drag us out of the water to head back inland.


Jeremy had a Super8 camera and was shooting some 8mm footage.


Looking down on some coral from the boat.

All in all, it was super fun and we got to see a TON of fish. No sharks this time...maybe next time! I definitely plan on doing this a lot more.