Today’s big event was a trip over to the reef to go snorkeling. We picked up Chris and Rani on Ladybug and went by Orcinius and The Rose. They came in their dinghy and we all went over to the the reef for some “fish sighting”. There were lots of fish, a couple sharks and I saw a couple Octopus. One that everyone was looking at was just hunkered down in a piece of coral. But I lucked out and ran across another that didn’t see me. He was meandering across the bottom from coral to coral and changing colors along the way. When he was over the sand, he turned white with some black flecks. When he was over the purple coral, he turned purple and when over some other coral, he turned brownish. Amazing to watch. He literally would “disappear” into his environment. But, now that I have a visual image of what he looks like, I can find more. Just like some of the seashells that we look for (especially the cowries). Until you’ve seen one, you can’t find them, but once you have the sight picture, you can see them everywhere.
We might leave for Raitea tomorrow, but we might not. Orcinius and The Rose want us to stay another day. Among other things, they are going to dive one of the passes and Ann and I can act/snorkel above them as safety guides. Plus it’s really beautiful here and why move?
We’ll see.
First of all, I’m really glad to hear you had a relaxing, island paradise kinda day. However, I’m a little concerned that you’re starting to go all Timothy Leary with the psychedelic octipi thing. So, have you been eating native mushrooms? Listening to the Dead? Or do you have some left over Mexican treats? If you start referring to Charisma as The Bus, I’m sending people with butterfly nets to come and collect you.
My fellow sailing friends, “To go, or not to go, that is the question. Whether ’tis nobler to suffer the little reef fishies and psychodelic octopi, Or take off into the Sea of Paradise. To swim to sail. To sail, perchance to adventure. Ay, where’s the rum?”