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