Snorkeling with Snakes

While I am interning in Fiji I have the weekends off to explore this beautiful country.  Not that this week was particularly grueling… getting projects started is the most painstakingly slow process EVER!  Anyways we decided to take a minibus from Suva to Nadi at 1am so that we got to the boat docks at 4am.  The night security guards took pity on us and let us go inside the terminal to sleep for the next 4 hours until the docks opened up.  One of the guards gave us some wooden boards to sleep on so we wouldn’t get cold on the tile floor (if you’re wondering they worked like a dream).

 Sarah and I at Malolo

At around 8am we hopped on board PJ’s Sailboat and headed out to the Malolo Island to snorkel, get some sun, and eat an awesome bbq lunch!  Snorkeling was pretty awesome I saw one of the most deadly sea snakes (swam 3 feet away from it), a manta ray (it was kinda shy), and one of our guides found a super cool conch shell for me!  I’ve also discovered that sail boats are my new favorite form of transportation, there’s really nothing better than laying out in the sun with the wind blowing through your hair and the sail billowing right above you!

This banded sea snake is one of the most venomous in the ocean... I had to get a closer look ;)