On our second full day on Tioman we chartered a boat to take us snorkeling. This island is well-known for its great scuba and it has a lot of shallow-water reefs that are also great for snorkeling.
Geared up and ready to go!
Tori had a mixed reaction with the snorkel at first. She loved seeing and being able to breathe, but it kept bothering her. And then fixing it was complicated. Because she could never quite explain just exactly how it was bothering her. It just was. But when we went a second day she had gotten it.
We spent the morning at two different locations, but on our way to another island the wind picked up and it started to rain. With the wind blowing the kids were freezing. I had to buy two beach towels because they were just so incredibly cold. They had warmed up some by this picture but before their lips were a little bluish.
Time to refuel with chocolate pancakes. Lunch of champions.
With her cute braids and sea-salty hair, I kept calling T my little island girl. Here the island girl is warming up with some hot tea.
Can you see all the fish just swarming around Josh? How cool is that?
Tori, Andy and Becca
Becca is such a fish herself. For part of the time, she was not even wearing her life jacket. It kept happening that we would look up and she was a bit away from us. But even with all of her adventurousness, she had mixed feelings about the swarm of fish being right on top of her. Loved seeing the fish, not so crazy about them bumping into her face. I gave her the advice that if she kept moving then the fish would avoid her. Later I would look at her and she would appear to be just flailing around. At first I was confused because she is an excellent swimmer, but then I realized all this flailing was to keep the fish at bay. Love that crazy girl!
Amree and T found an anemone. Or as Tori kept calling them: sea enemies.
Just a little slice of paradise. The tiny little island on the right side was our favorite spot to snorkel. There we saw countless clown fish, anemones, amazing coral, countless kinds of fish, and even a sting ray gliding along the bottom. What a unique experience!
So you might notice that is a marked lack of pictures containing me. Well, the reasons for that are two-fold. Even though Andy and I normally both take pictures, I took most of these. Secondly, do you have any idea what you look like after having your head in the water all morning? My vanity reared her head and for once I am letting her have her way. It was not pretty. Think I will leave it up to your imagination.
But we had a wonderful time. So much that on our last day when we gave the kids a choice of what to do, they unanimously choose to go snorkeling a second time. We will all cherish these memories.
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