Merry Christmas from Pohnpei

We arrived safely in Pohnpei yesterday afternoon.  Immediately after checking in at The Village, we headed out on the boat for a dive.  It was pretty amazing, we saw three big manta rays at a cleaning station, where they circle in the current to have small wrasses eat the algae out of their gills.  

Today we did two pretty spectacular dives.  We saw a school of over 20 sharks (just little white tip reef sharks), a school of big barracuda, some very large Napoleon wrasses,and a plethora of small creatures.  On the way back we came through a channel in the mangrove forest (I guess you would call it a forest).  It was pretty cool, and probably one of the few remaining intact mangrove habitats in the world.  

I did not take my camera out today to take pictures of the island, but here a is a picture of our room - it is a thatched hut with screen windows.  More photos to come soon...