9-18-18 Pictures...of random great times and places and peoples

Its a grouper.  Add a little rice, some coconut oil and Cajun, and wowowwoowwow

The campsite has been cleaned up a little.....

Oceanside of Torruji, or Tonleli, depending on who you ask.  Doesn't mater its gorgeous.

This would be lagoon side of Tonleli/Torruji….shallow for hundreds of yards out which makes it tough to bring the fish you spear back.  The sharks are shy until about a foot or two of water.

So hermit crabs run around on this little sand filled island like ants.  Thousands upon thousands of them.  The big area we cleaned up with the rakes was empty when we arrived the next time.  Word got out six hours later and they surrounded us.  We bring food.

Normally you would see hundreds of black spots on this beach, I'm not sure why they aren't there in this pic

Hows this for a campsite?

It looks like a field.  That little white spot with the green on top at the end of the brown is an island normally.  This is a super low tide (read big moon).  All that brown is the reef.  You can walk (albeit a slippery ankle breaking walk) nearly two miles to Ebeye, three islands away.

So from the Helicopter they do these things called "reef sweeps" where they run most of the way around the Atoll and check things out.  Pilot whales can be checked out too.

So this is the a common site while camping on the islands out here.  They are full of plastic.  Maybe "full" is a bit of an exaggeration.  There are bands of this type of thing everywhere on all of the islands I've been to out here.  This is just the stuff the island caught.  So much got blown by, or washed over.  Please don't use single use plastic bottles....or $2 flip flops at the beach.

Cole, Liz, and I....camping is good

 This is Ellep.  24 miles up the lagoon.  Farthest I've been with the little Hobie.  The lagoon side on top of the water was just ok.  The Ocean side, however, was the most beautiful canyon filled reefs I've seen out here.  We need to return to this place....a complete 10 hour session of snorkeling could happen on the oceanside in those beautiful surge channels.

The surfboard was brought up in the hopes of some surfing, where the waves ended up in the deep pass, as opposed to on top of the reef.  It made a great table.  Ok so this is Bikenell.  THE most beautiful island and water out here that I've seen so far....and in case my return doesn't happen....the rest of the pictures on this post are from there.....incredible

so its been a while.....9-11-18

It's not completely that I've lost enthusiasm for this place.  It's more like a cross between being slightly, I hesitate to use the word mundane.  I had a pretty good definition of "mundane" in my head.  "Boring" was the synonym, and also my one word definition.  "Lacking interest or dull" is what google had to say.  Neither really fit.

Life here now is a cross between being way too busy to post anything and a sort of view of it all as daily life.

Guys would reply when you asked them how's it going at work (back in the states in my former life)?  There were many replies to give without giving much thought such as " another day another 52$", or some other fake number that might elicit a response.  "Another day in paradise" was also a common one.  "Same old, Same old" seemed to be popular.

My reasons for not posting as much as I used to aren't that I've taken life for granted here, it's quite the opposite.  Life here is so great that there is no time to sit here and add to this blog.  Lately, when I do have time, I spend it meaninglessly watching some Netflix or Amazon movie cause "needing to do nothing (ie read watching a movie)" is perfect.

For example: I was recently back home.  After returning on September 1st, which was a Saturday, there was a camping trip already planned leaving Sunday morning for the weekend.  Camping involves getting some stuff together and looking at the forecast to decide which boat to take (yes both small boats, but who get's to say that?!).  It was labor day weekend, so two nights were spent on a deserted island in the south pacific.  Camping also involves not a single connection to humanity either with a phone, a computer, a smoke signal, or a radio.  So Tuesday we sail back, returning around 5 pm.  I get back to my place around 7pm or so after rinsing all our stuff and so forth.  Wednesday night was surfing, Thursday was a recovery day probably watching Netflix, Friday was Ultimate frisbee, the best game on the planet.  Saturday, after work, of course was packing to go camping again on Sunday, and come back on Monday.   Tuesday was spearfishing, Wednesday surfing.  Thursday rest/pack to go camping.  Friday frisbee.  Saturday ...after work of course...get the boat nearly ready to leave at the butt crack of dawn to go camping.

You see....life is good...and I'm incredibly fortunate to be so incredibly busy doing amazing things to post on here...

However, I will be attempting to add some pictures off all this nonsense...