Palau October 2012 Day 1

10/15/12

We made the long journey to Palau just fine.  All our flights were pretty smooth and uneventful.  Jordan, Eric, Tim, Jody and I were on the flight from Phoenix to San Francisco and then San Francisco to Honolulu, Hawaii.  When we got to Hawaii we were joined by Jared.  So then it was six of us on the flight from Hawaii to Guam and Guam to Palau.  We got to Palau about 8:30 p.m. and Neco Marine picked us up at the airport and took us to the Sea Passion Hotel.  We all got settled in our rooms and climbed into bed.  I think we were all pretty tired by this time.  Jeff and Vicki arrived about 2 a.m. and then Matt and Scott arrived about 4 a.m.

We had plans to do a snorkel/jellyfish lake tour the next morning at around 11:00.  We planned it for later in the morning to give the people that arrived late a little bit of time to sleep.  So around 10:30 the dive shop showed up to pick all of us up and haul all our gear over for the week of diving.  

Then we headed to jellyfish lake.  Everyone really enjoyed swimming with the jellyfish.  Everyone was amazed at how soft and delicate the jellyfish were.  After we left jellyfish lake we headed to a nice beach to have lunch.  After that we snorkeled a spot nearby that had quite few giant clams.  

Our final stop we snorkeled along a shallow reef area.  The current was really moving so everyone got to experience a nice current.  Several people in our group got to see a couple black tip reef sharks.  There were also quite a few fish feeding because of the strong current.  

We were all kind of tired after that so we decided to head back to the dive shop and call it a day.  After we took our stuff back to our room we decided to go down the road to the supermarket and stock up on beer, soda, and of course mango juice.  

After everyone got cleaned up, a couple people had appointments for Thai massages, some people started drinking, and others started looking through their pictures and video from today.  We all had plans to meet Fabio for dinner at The Drop Off.  After everyone had a nice dinner we were pretty tired and called it a night.  We have plans to meet at the dive shop to head out at 8:15 tomorrow morning for our first day of diving.