Port Villa, Vanuatu

 We had a kayaking/snorkeling tour first thing int he morning. It was a group of about 10 of us. We paddled clear kayaks over the water of the bay. It was nice to see them but even nicer to get into the water and swim with them. While we were out, it started to rain heavily. That was fine as we were already wet and our faces were in the water. We were having such a good time that we missed the call to go back into port. We finally got back to the boat to find the second group there. It wasn't just us, one of the women on our tour was still there. She is one of the guest lecturers on the ship. We finally got back to find Sister Matariki waiting for us. It was so good to see her. We were late because of the missed boat. We got to meet her mom and dad as well briefly. It was later that we found out that they weren't members. 

Some of Jack's underwater pictures:





We like to call this "One of these fish is not like the others."



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