Sunset from our Hotel Balcony
Tara enjoying the balcony
Tara enjoying the sunset
Tara enjoying the wine at ile aux Canards in Anse Vata Bay across from our Hotel, before heading into the water to test the camera!
How's this for a first shot!
Some fish
Tara and some fish
Fish reflecting in the surface of the water
Black and white fish
Confused fish
Fish checking me out
Tara diving
Many small fish in coral
A different fish
Tara diving
Colourful fish
These were cool fish
A mixture of fish
More confused fish
Some other fish
Love the colour of this coral
These little fish kept trying to hide from me behind the sign
There they go!
Are they the same or different to these fish
So cool!
The only shark we saw the whole time!
Another great sunset from out balcony
Off to Ilot Signal with Coconut Taxi's, this was after I stopped being sick from being hungover... Thanks to the lovely receptionist at our hotel for putting in some calls and making this happen as it was a goal for us and nearly didn't happen despite all our careful planning. It's harder to find information about these boats than you'd think, particularly when your french is as bad as mine!
Ilot Signal - 90% chance of seeing turtles!
Walking around the Island
I like this approach to the boardwalk and the vegetation
Mangrove
Cactus
Bird trying to drink our wine, this island really had it all.
We shared the island with no more than a dozen people, we were the only ones who didn't speak french and we had this little bay to ourselves all day.
TURTLE! Coming up for air, not a bad first shot!
Yeh there's many many photos of the turtle! - close up
Turtle swimming
Tara and the turtle
Tara looking smooth while diving
The water was beautiful, the sunburn less so.
My favourite fish again.
Tara in our bay
Me in our bay.
Better photo of Tara and the turtle
Turtle feeding, they literally didn't seem to care we were there.
Tara and the turtle 3
Tara and the turtle 4. Look at that cute face, the turtle... not Tara!
Close up
I think this might be the shot of the trip.
Giraffe fish?
A different fish
This grumpy sucker kept attacking us.
Blending in fish
Also blending in fish
Turtle coming up for air from above the water, you have no idea how many goes it took me to get this shot!
Going back down to feed after getting air
More fish
I mean seriously he would swim hard and fast at me to the point I'd flinch and he full on swam into Tara's leg!
Underwater selfie, the bubbles hide my selfie concentration face very nicely!
Diving into Baie des Citrons. Credit Tara
Tara selfie, she was a lot happier to be out here in day light. Several days earlier I made us swim out to the pontoon in the dark while drunk and there were most definitely sharks, not that we saw them. In the light today I got my exercise by swimming some laps between the pontoons. Some teenagers did warn me about a shark, possibly a white one? not that I saw anything. Credit Tara
Me diving. Credit Tara
Underwater selfie
Baie des Citrons
Sand ridges
A final selfie. The next day was Tara's birthday, we boarded our flight home, got diverted to Wellington, only got given a small thing of ice cream for lunch, flew back to Auckland and stood in a very long que, thus missing birthday drinks in Koru as well as our flight south. Luckily managed to get a last minute standby, so still made home for work the next day. Thanks heaps to James and Emily for making an extra trip to pick us up from the airport.
P.S and no my tan lines still haven't faded!
