It's been ages since I've written, but now that a few weeks have passed I suppose I should put up pictures from beautiful, beautiful samoa. The first two days I was by myself and had such a nice time reading and relaxing. The afternoons were hot, but not balmy, and the evenings had the most spectacular sunsets. Dusk has always been my most favorite time when the sun starts to sink down and the air gets a bit cool. Samoa did not let me down. On these days, just beyond the reef there was a whale that lazily breached and blew mist! It was pretty neat. On the second day I decided to go snorkeling, and I realize now that I'm actually pretty scared of sharks, so only when my friendly german neighbor encouraged me, did I go. For some reason it's just comforting when someone else is out there with you. Anyway, it was an amazing first snorkeling experience. I've never seen so many brilliantly colorful fish and I kept internalizing how cool it was so I would always remember. While at first I didnt realize it because I had never seen a coral reef before, the entire reef was pretty much a graveyard. There were pockets of regrowth, and they said that most of the fish had returned, but for the most part the tsunami destroyed almost everything. I can only imagine how radically different and rediculously bright it must have been before the hit.
The next five days were spent with my lovely wai-te-ata friends Alex and Lindsey. We had the best time and really just got to soak in the sun and the sweet crystal clear water. It was an amazing little paradise get away.
Lindsey, Alex and I
This shell found me. Couldn't keep it cause there was a little dude in there
Please tell me you see the llama
The universe loves too
The heavens
My favorite shot
Candy
Our fale
You'd wanna do yoga here too
We saw rainbows on two of the mornings we were there!
