Woesner Wanderings

June 9-16 Adriaan visiting

Adriaan, a friend from Oregon, was able to visit us over 2 weekends. He went to Palau during the week to dive. We had fun taking him around the island and on two of the best dives here - the Blue Hole and the Tokai and Cormoran wreck dive. We also hiked up (almost) to Mt Lam Lam. Fun times!

Toby went in for a drink, tried to turn around, and got stuck

(don't worry, we didn't leave him there)

We got a bit lost. It didn't turn out as good, but the next pic I snapped was Adriaan and Max pointing different directions! But we made it out before the sun went down.

View of the southern mountains

The Blue Hole (that's Gordon)

Adriaan by the hole

Kay checking out the fish

The wreck dive. This was a lot of fun

Juvenile yellow boxfish

We also hiked on AWR property

Like Max's sock tan?!

June 3- Bile Bay and Umatac Bay dives

Gordon, Kay, and two other friends took us on two new dives.

The first, Bile (pronounced "billy") Bay, had a lot of shelf corals

A cornet fish and another fish hanging out underneath a shelf

More anenome fish

We saw a sting ray and octopus on the 2nd dive

The next 3 pictures were taken within a minute of the same octopus,

amazing how fast they change color!

Gordon having a stare-down with the curious octopus

Max also found an eel

June 3 and 17- Aquathon and sprint triathlon

The SDA women's ministries had "The every woman" Aquathon, trying to promote health in our churches. There were around 80 participants, if I understood correctly. The longer version that I did was 200 meter swim and 5 K run.

Right before we started there was a full rainbow- pretty neat!

I'm behind a friend. I was trying to keep up with her and not bump into her. But I realized later that I would have been drafting off of her- not my intention!