Aye Aye Sailors....

We had a couple of days out on boats on trips to islands and snorkelling...the first one not too successful as the engine broke down and we had to idle into the resort and got back very late at night..tired and wet...the second was much more successful with Sam, Nikki and I all doing some fantastic snorkelling...and Joe seeing it all from a glass bottomed boat too.

The first trip we were due to snorkel we only had fifteen mins due to the delays and we did not see any of othe hoped for dolphins...but we did get a lovely meal at Musket Cove and we did not pay for the trip at all.....but we were blessed with a beautiful sunset....as we cruised home at a snail like pace of 6 knots!!!!!!

On our second day snorkelling we had a fantastically different day....fast clipper boat with Fijian seamen singing shanty songs the whole way. The island we went too was stunning....you were able to literally walk into the water and swim among the coral and the water was lovely and warm, shallow up to about 500m off shore....and was beautifully complemented by a beach bbq and game of beach football for the boys...Sam scored a hatrick and Joe was a terrier in defence even scoring a sensational penalty too.

The coral was as ever stunning, and the array of different fish took the breath away....Sam and I came within a couple of feet of stingrays twice....which so soon after the tragic accident to Steve Irwin certainly made us stop and think.

The trip home was wahed down with large mugs of tea and biscuits and was topped off by a stunning sunset that night back at the resort....see later posts on the blog for our stunning sunsets.