Our routine now is pretty consistent. There will be two activities a day. Breakfast opens an hour and a quarter before the first activity. If you aren’t interested in the activity there are no alternatives and have to entertain yourself on the ship, where there is extremely slow internet speeds and no televisions. This is a bit of a sore point for Lynn, who wants to snorkel occasionally but not every day.
And as occurs more often than not, the morning activity was snorkeling and the afternoon’s was a village visit.
The snorkeling was just at the tip of the island nearby on a sloping coral wall. The visibility was great and the coral was very pretty. There is a Japanese Zero on the sea floor. This was a bit deeper than they’d suggested and it is pretty broken up so it’s hard to see the outline. I got a few photos, diving as deeply as I could.
The other limitation was that there were lots of small jellyfish in the water. After we got out they said these were harmless, and I thought they probably were at the time but it was a bit off-putting. This one was slightly more interesting – the rest looked like transparent plastic boxes and were very hard to capture in a photo.
Lunch was pleasant, sitting out on the back deck in a mild breeze. And at about 2pm we went ashore to the village of Yende. Like yesterday it is built in the narrow border between the mountain and the sea, and so most of the houses are on stilts. They sat out two or three buildings deep into the water with a rock wall to provide a path and shelter them from waves. We listened to the nice music and looked around the two churches.
Back to the ship to relax and read. We’ve each finished a great number of books in the last fortnight.
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