Diving in Palau

March 2005 Dive Trip to PALAU with John, Tom and Jeff

We flew through Tokyo, land of the Plastic Food, to make our way to Palau.

Arriving in Palau, after taking a right at Guam, we got underwater quickly cuz that's what we were there to do. DIVE!

There was plenty of big stuff to see.

Here's a sea turtle chomping on some coral.

Me, I'd rather eat the turtle over the coral, given the choice.

This lobster was humongous. He might have been a 5 pounder at least. Maybe bigger. I didn't have a bathroom scale handy. Musta fallen out of my pocket like Jeff's reefhook did.

Lobster sashimi is the best.

(We didn't eat this guy, don't worry.)

Lots o' big eels to get close to and annoy.

Eels are tasty too, but not these big ugly ones.

I scared this shark into a hole chasing him in with my camera. Poor sharkie! He probably thought I was gonna eat him.

This guy was afraid of me too and buried himself in the anemone. No wonder since the shark told him I would come over and chase him.

This batfish is waiting for some tasty turtle poop! (Seriously!)

Here's John chasing a poor turtle with his camera. (To get a picture, not for the reasons the Batfish chases the turtle.)

We visited a Giant Clam farm. Giant Clams are quite yummy.

We took a swim in Jellyfish Lake.

There were a couple of Japanese tourists there taking some Jellyfish home to eat them. I stayed away from those people in case they tried to take me back to their hotel room to make Vanimal sushi.

I caught this big yellow fin tuna on our day out fishing. He was yummy. Jason carved him up into sashimi for us.

Here's Jason serving up some beer to go with the sashimi.

Here we see a beer bottle on a Japanese WWII wreck.

And this is a huge japanese saki jug.

Maybe the boat got sunk cuz they were trying to defend themselves all drunk after drinking all that beer and saki and probably also eating sushi. I'm sure that's what happened.

I mean, we would never drink and sail or anything... especially without an engine.

Thanks for the excellent sunset sail Gary! Hope to meet you again someday. I thought you were a cool dude.

Although a cold beer would go great with this poppy seed roll.

(This is really a big cushion star. Some people don't get my strange humour.)

I think in the 1970's my mother had wallpaper in the kitchen with this very same pattern.

It was so fashionable with the green shag carpet!

These are SeaGrapes. They look like the plastic grapes Mom had in that little plastic fruit basket in the kitchen with the ugly wallpaper. Probably tastes similar too.

We might have had matching pillows on the sofa with these colors but maybe not.

I think this soft coral would make a nice desktop wallpaper. In fact, if you click on that picture you can get a big 1024 x 768 version of that photo and do with it whatever you want.

More BIG:

BIGEYE fishes are called that for a reason.

Giant Clams are not big. They are GIANT!

This Clown Trigger was also pretty large. Bigger than a football. Even bigger than those weird Australian Rules footballs. In fact now that I think about it, this Clown Trigger kinda does look like a football. Gosh. I haven't played football in so long....

Manta Rays are also on the BIG side.

If I ever get around to making a new stereo integrated 100 watt amplifier, he's gonna be called the Manta Ray.

Napoleon Wrasses don't seem to suffer from Napoleon complex like the little short french general dude did. Or did he? Or does he? Who knows.

We also went diving in a cave. People from Yap used to paddle in canoes to this very cave to take big rocks home to make that crazy Yap Money that looks like giant Krispy Kreme donuts, but made of rock. The question is, like, didn't they have rocks on their own island? I mean why did they have to travel hundreds of miles over open ocean by canoe to come get rocks in some hidden cave in Palau? I guess that's what makes Yap money valuable? Because it is a PITA? All I know is those giant rocks don't fit in my pockets.

This was a WWI hospital at one time. Although now it seems to be the place to hide tires from the Yap people who might row over here to this place in their canoes mistaking these tires for their Yap money.

I would get confused.