What a fanatastic day we've had today! We were down at the beach by 8.30 ready to take the water taxi over to the island. It is only a 2minute ride and we had a perfect day for it. The sea was like glass and the sun shining so that everyone was ready to hit the water as soon as we arrived! Throughout the day the kids snorkelled along the set route over a coral reef, swam and went paddle boarding, or else just lay on the beach relaxing. Sophie snorkelled away happily too and overcame her fear of the little fish she thought might be man-eaters!
Even I had a go at paddle boarding this year and quite fancied a turn around the little bay we had told the kids they could practise in. I was fine for a few minutes and then suddenly my legs got shaky and I disappeared over the back of the board out of view! I must say I provided the main entertainment of the day for those watching Madame! there happened to be a couple of helicopters hovering above at the time and Ollie told me that they were surely there from TV3 and that everyone at home would get a replay! Carrie laughed so much she could hardly stand!
We finished up there and began the walk to Mariotti at 3pm to meet the billets. They had a great day and it is so nice to see how pleased they are to greet their billets now at the end of the day. Caitlyn said today that she can't believe how scared she was last week but now she knows she won't want to say goodbye on Thursday.
We look forward to our day at Phare Amedee tomorrow with more snorkelling and swimming but with the odd sea snake thrown in for good measure for a change!
Au revoir!
The TIS team
Wow! What an awesome time you are giving our kids! Would love to see the photos of Madame's style of Paddle boarding! Tell Josh that he'll have to teach us to Paddleboard over the Summer!
ReplyDeleteWe are in for a miserable day here but expected to get up to 10 degrees.We'll see -it's only 8 at 11am! Make the most of that sunshine! Big Nan Hug for Josh please.
Hi Chloe
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful time you are getting to have. The weather is lovely!!!!! can,t say the same about the weather here yucky!!
love seeing all the pictures and hearing about your adventures. Grandma checks the blog everyday even twice! Don't forget to thank your hosts for having you! have an awesome next few days
miss you heaps and heaps lots of love mum and neil xxx