The Great Adventure to Palau 
November 7th-19th, 2008
Day One: Welcome to Palau!
The long jounrey!
Day Two: Badeldoab Island Tour
The great Palauan feast
Lobster served in coconut frond woven baskets
Sipping from da coconut
Our boo boo spiders
Palauan spiders predict the weather
The Money Bird pooping the rock
The great white elephant white house
"I jumped off the bridge and went to jail"--TJ
The local cop jumps too
Betel nut demo amd TJ Climbs the betel Nut tree
Pepper leaves, a little lime and a pinch of tobacco
Betel--the fruit of the areca palm
Our trip to the aquarium and we meet Ron
Ron's wonderful overview
Story boards
Old men use the hole in the floor
The story of Bai--the traditional men's meeting house
Our mud sucking hike to the waterfall
Huge fruit bats
Japanese train tracks
The insectivorous pitcher plants
White tailed tropic bird
The beautiful waterfall and group photo
The Great American Booze run
A near collison on the highway
LUD Milla and the lounge
The after party up the road
Day Three: The Kayak Adventure Begins ~Lee Marvin Beach
Our Route: Nikko Bay to Rembrandts to Lettuce Coral Gardens to the Pill Boxes and Lee Marvin Beach
Here comes the rain!
Paddling in the tropical rain!
Swimming through Thermoclines
Welcoming the wetsuits!
Rembrandts Garden
Rock clams
Basket corals
Pajama Cardinal fish
Moorish idols
Picasso Triggerfish
Lettuce coral garden
Camping at Lee Marvin Beach
TJ takes us to the Japanese pill box
Feather duster worms
The medusa and the polyp stages
Snorkelin' in the rain--la la la
Group plays the " I have never" game
TJ learns some games
Paddle dancing
"I have owned a hooorse"--Doctor Ruth
Yaps swallow betel juice
Kim's "color only" pedicure story
Red Breasted Wrasse
Nonee juice--medicine for everything
Land Crab Sex
Luxury camping!
Our wonderful crew!
8 banded butterfly fish
Blue devil fish
Kayaking to the Bat cave
Trumpet flower
Our fascination with the egg laying crabs
Crab boogie
Day Four: Lee Marvin Beach
Our Route: Blue devil dive~ to black tip lake~paddle to shipwreck bay to little Risong Bay to Sunken City & Mandarin Lake
The seniors paddle in forbidding seas
Manta ray show down and drift swim in German Channel and Lolitas Garden
Gussie's Nursery
Those little blue fish!
Clouds of humbugs
The nerotic Jenna fish
Banded pipefish
Bird wrasse
"Perhaps its time to turn her into a little damsel"
Hunt for the elusive Manadarin Fish
Spotted eagle rays
Baby black tip sharks
Great Palauan Grizzly bear
The awesome drift snorkel
So many triggerfish!!
Pajama fish everywhere!
Dazzling parrotfish
Pouring over our field guides
Cassopeia (upside down jelliefish)
Night herons
Day Five: Ngerendiu Beach
Shuttle to Ngerendiu Beach~ Paddle the Milky Way~ to Parrot Cove~ to Secret Lake and Einstein Coral Garden
Dusky clown fish
school of squid
Lizardfish
BIG Clams~ Giant Clams
Turtle
Map pufferfish
Pink Anemone fish and Anemone
Fugus corals with big tentacles
Dramatic boat ride
The Milky way paddle
Chiton poop facial mask
Stinging jellies
The squadron of squid
The mutually symbiotic goby and shrimp
Einsteins Coral garden snorkel in da rain
Eels
Tunicates
Gigantic anemones
The halimeda shake down for tiny critters
The crazy paddle to camp
Where's our TJ and Tarong?
Cleaner wrasse
The 3:00am storm!
The early morning departure
TJ breaks out the betel nut
Cassopeia
More moorish idols
Cushion stars
Snacks at TJs uncle's beach
Patti's pufferfish
Day Six: Ngerendiu Beach
Route: Shuttle to Long Lake paddle mangoves~ to Giant Clam ~ paddle to 3 coconuts~ current swim~Rainbow Reef shuttle to camp
The awesome mangrove paddle
The lola fish
Eviscerating sea cucumbers
Sea cucumbers everywhere!
Our lesson in eating sea cucumbers
The elusive giant clams
Kim's inflated pufferfish
Jenna's star lecture
The symbiotic shrimp with the anemone
Eels found hunting in the shallows
Sharks!
The plankton freenzy
Clouds of chromis
The mimic sea anemone
Bi color angelfish
Pink tipped unicorn fish
Chervon butterfly fish
Pages of Butterfly fish
supermale wrasses
The illegal beach landing
The weird crab on the illegal beach--coconut crab?
TJ screams: SHARK!!!
The spider crab lobster
Yet another goby and shrimp association
The fragile disintergrating sea cucumbers
Unicornfish
Cornetfish
The big swim in the current
The bettelnut experiment
Yaps swallow spit and darken their teeth
Bettel nut black magic
Sea star regeneration
Chirs and Nellie's kayak surfing session
Stinky clothes
The zero plane swim
Kim, Chris, Jenna's big swim back to camp in the dark
Day Seven: Ngemellis Beach
Our Route: shuttle to Fantasy Island paddle to Giant Clam Beach ~to Jellyfish lake ~long Beach and German Channel
Fantasy Island and the search for black tips
Giant Clam beach
No Rain!
Magnificent sunshine!
Gigantic manta rays
Heavy current and big swim in German Channel
Trumpet fish
TJ and Kim's smoke rings in giant clams
Blue tailed skinks along hike to jellyfish lake
Tj walks the limstone barefoot!
Table top corals
A brilliant day!
Stingless jellies of jellyfish lake
Moon jellies too
Hypnotic surreal jellies
Yellowtail coris fish
The amazing aqua blue beach
A beach front barbeque feast
Queen Ruthy, emperoress to you!
The disappearing anemones
Regal angelfish
Oriental sweetlips
Lined sweetlips
Jennas sweetlips
Big ugly fish
Black and white snappers
"Paddle to the left of that little rock island"
Chris gets hooked on Bettel but
The oranged tongued Chris fish
Our laundry is dry!
Rock mover wrasse doing his duties
Filter feeding tuna feeding frenzy
Pulsating baby anemones
The attacking damsel fish
Getting cleaned by the cleaner wrasse
Day Eight: Carp Island Resort
Our Route: Paddle to Virgin Blue`Big Drop Off~ Shuttle to Turtle Cove Beach~ Paddle to Carp Island Resort
Twotone dart fish
Fire Dartfish
Kim Kim, its coming right towards us!
Diving the wall at turtle cove
Sharks lurklng
Bignose unicorn fish
Orangespine unicorn fish
Photogenic Batfish
More sweetlips--so sweet!
Barracuda
The HUGE moray getting cleaned
Porcupine fish--ET, phone home!
The deadly venemous sea snake!
Don't put your foot down-Dr. Ruth
"Go to the little rock island"
Kayak surf drama
Landing at Carp island
Hot showers
Shelly and Tina's goby
Love Love gobyfish
White tip black tip shark
The best day of Gussie's life
Gussie's Uncle Bill story
Happy hour at Carp Island
Scribbled filefish
Clouds of Prymid butterflyfish
The feeding frenzy
The wall....the amazing wall
Napeleon wrasses
eagle rays
Blue stripped fang blenny micmicing cleaner wrasse
Farewell to the crew
Hoorah, Tarong stays!
Christmas wrasse
Day Nine: To Peleliu
The night dive!!
Sharks lurking
Silky shark--start up the engine!!
TJ disappears in the darkness
Jenna's manta dive
Jenna's turtle
Jenna's Italiains in Bikinis
Ruth loved Peleliu
Girls Napping at Peleliu
AC vans!
American Sherman Tanks
1000 men cave
Sweaty people
Huge crickets
Whip scorpion
Napalm forest regrowth
Amazing lunch
Japanese armory
General headquarters
Rubber wing plane
General's headquarters
81st infantry memorial
squat toilets
Love love puffers
Ruth sees her shark
Rainbow snorkel
The lionfish at dusk
Incredible sunset
Lola's 10 squid
Jenna's leaf fish
Slingjaw wrasse
Day Ten: The Long Jounrey Home
The Tawainese scramble
Thorn of Crown sea stars
Our last dive--boo woo!
Sea Snakes
the stash of thorn of crowns
Palau by air
Shopping frenzy
Our farewell dinner
the LOOOOONG flight home....