This AM I worked from home from the bungalow again. I got quite a bit of work done which felt good. The internet connection was pretty smooth today.. Even in the rain. I had a long call this morning over VoIP with my team, luckily they were able to hear me clearly. The internet connection on this small motu is connected over a wireless link. When it rains the connection goes to crab since water is interfering.
I shot quite a few more pics today around the resort. For lunch mat and I ordered room service so we didn't have to walk to the restaurant. We are so spoiled now haha. I'm ready to go back to the simple life of bread and pasta at le presek'ile (peninsula). I've been having so many desserts lately, I can't wait to start training again ha. I tried to take a nap today but failed. Mat went out on his own to do air pics and also to shoot some videos too. He worked on editing some kind of video most of the evening and night. I heard the same song played 100 times today while he was editing the video.
After lunch we hung out for a while while the weather was bad and then once it cleared up we went to the garden corals to check out the fish. Mat grabbed me some fins that he thought were my size, but once getting in the water and smashing my feet into them i realized they were not. I stuck out the pain as long as I could and then i went in to get a different pair hah. I was really stoked about this snorkel because I actually saw an octopus. He was changing colors and had himself held down into a hole in the ground. I really wanted him to come out so i could get better pic, but anytime i got close to him he would cram himself deeper into the hole. As I would swim away (or up current rather) he would slowly poke his head up. He would actually poke his head up faster if he saw that I wasn't looking at him. Those creatures are so smart. I snapped a few pics of the guy and then left him alone.
I swam over to more corals and started to take some pics of the fish. The fish greet you like a long lost relative at this spot. I let some bread out and it was like sharks swarming a school of fish. I had to be careful that the big parrot fish didn't bite me! they were swimming all around me, coming so close and even swimming between my legs and under my fins lol. Those fish actually bite on coral reef and chew it.. so you can imagine if one bit you, it would be a bad thing. The funny thing about these fish and taking photos of them is that they actually get too close to your lens to get decent shots of them. This is a problem I've never had before when shooting fish.
I shot them for a while and then headed back to the resort. I saw the fenced off shark that some local squatter has there. He charges tourists to see the shark. I wanted to go into the water at night and bust the shark out of the cage.. Mat doesn't want to deal with the locals though, I don't blame him.. but i really do want to bust that shark out of the cage.
Once I got to the resort I jumped in the pool and swam up to the swim up bar. I ordered a virgin pina colada (of course) and took some photos of the bar. The pineapple here tastes so amazing so as you can imagine the drinks are great too.
I went for another sunset paddle. This time mat was the photographer. It was so beautiful out there again. the white sand around the point is insane. I even tried to catch some of the current swell that came though the lagoon sine it was so shallow. didn't really catch any though as they were too small.
For dinner we went over to the restaurant, we both had duck. It was pretty good. I think the lamb chops I had yesterday were a lot better though. For dessert I had the molluex (spelt wrong), it was amazing as usual. So much chocolate and ice-cream flavor in such a small amount of food.
After dinner we came back to the room and hung out. i fed the fish some cockroaches from the deck (4 to be exact). It is quite entertaining for me to watch the fish eat the bugs for some reason. I also tried to chum some sharks with beef leftovers from lunch but failed :). There were hundreds of the spike nosed fish all around the bungalow again tonight. I slammed the paddle down next to some and they all jumped at the same time all around the water. They get scared so easily. It rained pretty hard for a bit and now its clear again. Rain is very fickle here compared to cali. It will rain here for a minute and then its gone 10 minutes later with the sun being out. Back in cali we usually have cold weather and rain all day or for days, but not nearly as hard as the rain is here in French Polynesia.
One more full day to go before we fly back to Tahiti!
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