As promised to my followers on Facebook, here is the video clip of the pod of whales that greeted our dive boat the other day! (It only took a collective total of seven hours of attempting to upload). We were headed out from the dive shop Day Dream, towards Peleliu for a day of diving, when our boat suddenly veered sharply to the left and someone yelled "pilot whales!" Within moments, our boat was surrounded by bow-dancers. They would come up, several at a time to jump synchronized out of the water, and then leave the space free for the next
We found an amazing new dive shop and it is called Day Dream! I couldn't find them on TripAdvisor to write them a nice review, so I thought I'd highlight a few reasons why they rocked right here. Maybe someone Google searching the diving in Palau will stumble across this and be inspired to check them out. Or maybe this will give some of you ideas of what to look for in a dive shop. Since we have befriended most of the staff at Sam’s Dive Tours, they have sort of turned into our default shop to dive with. Unfortunately, since
Yesterday Fletch and I decided to go drive around Babeldaob, first of all because there’s some cool stuff way up north where we hadn’t ventured yet, and second of all because our car battery had slowly been dying due to constantly starting the car and then only driving half a mile. So nice long drive for the car, new territory to explore for us, it was a win win idea. I’ve already described this several times, so sorry if I am beginning to sound like a broken record, but Babeldaob is the big island just over the bridge to the north
While I’m not a huge car person, I do find amusement in seeing all the funny vehicles that drive the roads when I visit new places, and if I can get a chuckle out of the different cars on the road here, then I figured maybe some of you car people out there would enjoy seeing the cars of Palau. So I sat out on the roof like a total creep yesterday and took pictures of cars as they drove by. I’m probably already sounding like I don’t have a clue what I’m talking about, so I went ahead and
I’d like to be under the sea, in an octopus’s garden in the shade. Here’s a little fun fact about that whimsical song: "I wrote Octopus's Garden in Sardinia. Peter Sellers had lent us his yacht and we went out for the day