Tree Climbing

Tim was finally able to come to the beach with us on his off day a few weeks ago. I feel a little guilty that we frequent the beach so much and he's stuck indoors working. A few snorkeling trips though and he's good to go! The beach was beautiful that day (when is it not?) but our kids didn't want to swim. Instead I tried to teach them how to climb the coconut trees to get a fresh one to drink. I made it about halfway up before I realized I may not be as limber with this protruding belly of mine. The kids were in awe and Owen even tried to go up a few notches. June just kept asking me, "You okay?" Sweet girl. 

Snorkeling to the WII Tank

There are a few WWII Tanks left in the ocean from a major battle on the beach all those years ago. One in particular is in plain sight from the beach. We've snorkeled out to it once before but didn't have an underwater camera. We found a cheap one (a whole $25 cheap) and went back out.

The water isn't as clear at this beach and it was low tide so it was even less clear. You go through lots of patches of sea grass (which I hate), sea slugs (which I hate more), and these weird brain-like swishy pods (bleck!) I'm kind of a wuss when it comes to squishy things on my feet so I usually squeal through my mask a few times on the way.

It's strange--there aren't many fish on the way to the tank but once there, fish are all over it.

It's hard to see what you're actually taking a picture of so we just point it in the general direction. :-)

When the sun hits these fish are just glowing.

Angel fish!

Striped baby eel! Eek!

The tank is in the left corner...yeah...perhaps underwater photography is not my specialty. :-)