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Yesterday we booked to do a boat trip around the lagoon, which was breathtaking.
Our first stop was on Honeymoon Island, where we saw some kind of Tern (bird) that is only found here and has a bright red beak and tail. Lunch was BBQ tuna on Tapuaeta'i (One Foot Island). The remainder of the day was spent snorkelling and walking along remote beaches and sandbars. Words are not going to do this lagoon justice, so you'll have to wait until I manage to get some photos on the site, and I did go a bit picture mad!!
The snorkelling was amazing - giant clams, luminous coral, butterfly fish and we even fed them! Keren had been taking the p*** out of me for buying a waterproof fish card, which showed pictures of the lagoon fish and their measurements. She even told the other 2 couples on the boat how sad I was, but they soon wanted to look at my card when we'd been in the water! Needless to say I refused!
Coral is actually a tiny primitive carniverous animal which draws in calcium from the water and excretes it to form a hard coral skeleton which protects the soft body. When alive the colours can be vivid, but when it dies it loses it's colour. A reef is made up of millions of tiny rock-like limestone structures formed by the coral.
The rest of our time in this little piece of heaven was spent walking on the beaches, collecting shells and swimming.
For dinner tonight we headed to Cafe Tupuna and had a sublime meal - seafood chowder to start followed by reef fish stuffed with prawns, onion and herbs and baked with coconut milk in a banana leaf. It's probably a good job we didn't find this place earlier in our stay, or we'd have been here every night. The atmosphere was lovely as well, with us sat in the garden under a sandy floored canopy.
A great way to finish off this part of the trip. S xx
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