We had gotten scuba certified before we left so we could check out a few of Palau's dive spots. They are supposed to be the best in the world and being so close we just couldn't pass it up.
The first one we went to was called the Virgin Blue Hole. It's over 100ft down and you swim thru a tunnel to get to a drop off. I was pretty nervous since we had only gone a max of 60ft prior to this and my ears sometimes hurt when I don't equalize quick enough. To my surprise it really didn't feel that much deeper.
Glowing blue.
I can never get over the color of the water in tropical places.
This is for real. They warned me that we would see some sharks but I didn't know they meant we would get so close. We used hook lines to float like kites on a drop off and there were tons of fish and sea life passing by. Unfortunately, for me (everyone else in the group were thrilled) there were about 5 or 6 great white sharks (granted they weren't fully grown) swimming about 6 feet from us. They circled around for half and hour. I was terrified. Longest half hour of my life!
After mentally peeing my pants with the sharks we moved on and saw a sea turtle. They are my absolute favorite to see while scuba diving.
After two dives we went to Jellyfish Lake. Tim had found out about this place before we even thought about moving out to the Marianas Islands and vowed to go there one day. It was pretty surreal that we were actually there. Unfortunately, our camera battery died about five minutes after arriving but it was incredible. Over 3,000 jellyfish are in the lake and because the lake closed off from the ocean several hundred years ago they no longer have stinging capabilities.
They are really squishing and soft.
Seriously just layer upon layer upon layer of them just floating around.
