Vallée Vaipao

Snorkels-all day long, with a break for a delicious island lunch.

We had an early start- slathered up with SPF 50 before donning board shorts, rash shirt, and water shoes. I opted not to bring the flippers, since they weren't helpful yesterday. Mistake. Luckily the boat had some for us to use. We had more open water today.

We saw black-tipped sharks, devil rays, manta rays, green moray eel, all sorts of fish in a rainbow of different colors and combinations. There were clams or oysters with teal and purple designed openings, sea urchins... And on and on. The coral gardens had all manner of coral- purple, yellow, green, brown, orange.

The lunch was yummy- pig, bananas, spinach, breadfruit, tapioca root, taro, pineapple, So. Good.

We ended our trip with a visit to a sand-bottomed area where we hung out in the water until our return to the dock. We tendered back to the ship- no waiting.Read more