A day trip. We paid to go to Palau’s 5-star resort. It was definitely worth it. We will be going again. Maybe even once a month.
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Tagged Beach, food, Palau, Palau Pacific Resort, snorkeling, Travel
Here are some pictures we have taken since we got back to Palau after our trip to Hawaii. We went to a “park” here in town with our dog Daisy Pearl and she had a blast. It started to rain so it cut the trip short, but not short enough. Daisy ran all over the place while it was raining, actually, torrents of water were pouring from the sky. It was still nice.
The other pictures are on various days when our dog needed her picture taken.
The sunset and the subsequent pictures were all taken this evening.
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Tagged Beach, caves, Family, Hawaii, Holidays, Kauai, kayaks, rainbows, rocks, sea turtles, snorkeling, Travel, Waterfalls
We went on a trip to Melekeok a couple weeks ago. We were going to go SCUBA diving but the instructor thought I was going to call and confirm. That is not how we had left it two weeks before, but anyways… it meant that we could not dive that day. So, since we had the van and nowhere to be I figured we would take a trip. We ended up going to the State of Melekeok. We live in Koror State, the academy is in Airai State, and Melekeok is one state further north from there. Of the states that we can drive to Koror is the only one that is not on Babeldaob (the big island).
Melekeok is the state in which the new capitol was built a few years ago, it should look pretty familiar. After checking out the architecture we went to the beach close by there in Melekeok.
Here are the pictures.
So this happened awhile back, like weeks ago. Our first day of scuba class was on Aug. 13. But, that was only textbook stuff and videos and a swim test (which they said was actually pretty important… meaning the instructors have had students that actually finished the SCUBA Diver course without actually knowing how to swim…How dangerous does THAT sound?!?!?). These pictures are all from the 14th when we actually breathed SCUBA for the first time.
You should definitely come to Palau. It is gorgeous, even when it rains.
Jesse
One by land, one by sea. On last Sabbath and Sunday all of the new staff went on a quick trip. Sabbath’s trip was just a quick walk down to one end of Koror, the island we live on. Sunday’s trip was a half-day excursion by kayak, led by Nelson the native Palauan vice principal. Unfortunately, my camera battery died only part-way into that trip… so much of it will not be covered until later (hopefully later).
The walking…
We leave our apartment and see the elementary school.
That is the actual view from up at our apartment.
Ours is on the 2nd floor.
That is Hailey with Chelsea, who is one of the three girls that lives on the third floor.
Our apartment building from down next to the school building.
Several SMs sitting in the gym. (Chelsea, Tami, Carl, Jeanine, Chris, Austin)
The view of the left side of the church from inside the gym.
Eventually, we all showed up and were able to leave for the walk. I didn’t take pictures again until we made it to the park a mile or two down the road. (Ben & Austin)
Us.
This is the other married couple from the states. Jeff and Misty are planning on being in Palau for a year.
I took a group picture of all of us new staff that went on the walk. (Principal Flores, Jeff, Misty, Hailey, Victor, Austin, Kofi from Ghana for two years like us, Jeanine, Chelsea, Tami, Ben, Chris, Carl)
Principal Flores told me to get in the picture for this one.
We continued onward toward a spot that we heard was a little more beachy.
We actually crossed this little bridge off of Koror to Long Island.
The water was gorgeous pretty much everywhere you looked.
I think the overhanging trees like this are so cool.
I was surprised to find this cliff-face next to our final destination.
We had to walk around this bed of viney flowers to get to the water’s edge.
Where we ended up was not actually very beachy, still mostly rocky, broken-up coral.
Hailey (and the rest of us) still really enjoyed it.
The Kayaking…
So Nelson went around and borrowed and rented (but ended up not having to pay) sit-on-top kayaks for us all. He is a really cool guy and he came with us to serve as our guide.
Hailey and I had a two-seater.
There were several little islands like this one.
Hailey and I had bought masks and snorkles earlier that day.
She wanted to stay in the boat at first so she lent her mask to Victor.
We thought they matched his pink kayak pretty well.
Jeff and Misty also had a two-seater.
Check out what Austin told us is called a sea dragon. It looks like some type of sea horse to me. It was only like 6 inches long.
This anemone was about the size of a volleyball.
We stopped for a minute in this really cool shaded cove with several little caves like this one surrounding it. It looked like something straight out of Robinson Crusoe. I said I would definitely go camping there if I could. And then the battery on my camera died, so I was not able to take pictures of our ultimate destination of a big cove with a big cave that we could paddle the kayaks into. We were there swimming around both inside and outside the cave for well over an hour. Then we headed back to the nearest dock. Hopefully, I can get the pictures from at the cave from some of the others. All in all it was a very good first weekend in Palau.
Jesse
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All of us that were here in Hawaii for the Guam/Micronesia Mission (GMM) principals meetings went to the Kailua SDA Church for Sabbath. If you are ever in Oahu I think you should consider attending this church. Wonderful people, beautiful … Continue reading
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