Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Palau Day 2 - Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Today we did three dives. The first dive was at the Tunnel. The second one was at an unmarked dive site discovered by Mandy that one of our dive masters claimed has the nicest coral within about a 2-hour radius of Palau and he was right. The coral there was amazing. The colors of the soft and hard corals here are unbelievable. There are many more fish here than what we are used to seeing in the Caribbean and sharks everywhere you look.

Our third dive today was at Ulong Channel near Ulong Island (where Survivor Palau was filmed). The current has to be going just right to dive this site and it happened to be working in our favor today. The visibility was absolutely amazing. You could sit on the side of the boat and look over and see all the way to the bottom. We saw many sharks on this dive and I got some good video of one that swam right in front of me. They are so graceful—it is amazing.

The weather here has been kind of strange (supposedly because of the full moon). It is off and on rainy and then sunny. Today we had rain much of the day while we were out on the boat, but it does not really matter when you are already wet. It actually felt nice, though, to get into the water to get warmed up. Dive-wise it was an amazing first day.

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