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No fish in the first shot...

Today started by playing our new favorite game. Catch a picture of the flying fish. The island has these little white fish, that will jump out of the water like skipping stones; one group, then the next, then another (maybe playing leapfrog almost) It's very cool, and it seems like something easy enough to grab a picture of because you can see them building up to it in the water. However, turns out they are more difficult to capture than we expected. Both Kat and I have spent hours holding the camera trying to video evidence of these buddies. Today, I was 'maybe' successful. I don't know that I would go that far, but here you can see what we captured.

Best snap of the group

Kat and I have been using the shared bathroom up the walk, because we thought our room had no toilet and this was like a camping type situation. Seemed a realistic possibility. This morning, I walk in and open the door that I thought housed the water heater... Nope, It's a toilet! Seriously, how many trips did we make outside thinking this wasn't here? (also, that's mostly true, but a little bit a lie. We did spend the first day thinking there was no toilet and using the communal Water Closet, but I forgot earlier and still wanted to share the story. We solved this mystery before going to bed on day 1 - Thankfully.)

The rest of the day we spent snorkeling, first in the outer lagoon, and then in the inner. I had big ideas to sight the ray that everyone has mentioned to us. We headed off in that direction, and saw... literally nothing. One small reef full of fish, and our new Canadian friends Leanne and Patrick walking to their over water bungalow. Probably for the best we didn't see anything though, Patrick told us the next day that he saw a Blacktip Reef shark circling under their house in the waters we were swimming.

The lance-headed smiling fish are the 'Unicorn' fish!!
(They aren't on this chart of fishes)

We however (fortunately) decided to leave the outer lagoon and swim with the fish stocked in the inner lagoon. Kat giggled so hard under her snorkel as different fish swam up to her face, particularly these lance-headed creatures that had temperament smiley faces. We eventually floated towards the restaurants, and just stood under the awnings while countless fish circled around us. Finally, one of the carp actually nipped at my fingers, and we decided to leave. Floating under the main pier, we saw the biggest fish of the whole stay, and then continued onward toward our beach. 

This guy gave us a thumbs up during their shoot. 
Not the same couple from today.

After a quick rain shower, the flying fish spent a while skimming the top of the water for the things that were churned up in the water. Kat grabbed some of these pics while I decided to even out my tan on one of the loungers. Laying topless and relaxing, I was suddenly alerted to a couple's presence at the chapel, due to the sound of the drone overhead. We've seen multiple people next door commemorating their nuptials with this experience, I just didn't expect it today, with the rain. I frantically message and call Kat to help me robe up and not disrupt their ceremony, but that went ignored. Eventually the couple left, I put my bath robe back on, and walked inside to ask where she was. I was greeted with mostly guffaws and laughter as she recognized what had happened while reading over her phone's messages.