Jellyfish lake and a white beach

After breakfast, my dive buddies from yesterday (Marco and Barbara) set off on our long day trip at 0850.  The boat had a capacity of four, and as all other guests were couples, we didn’t have any luck with anyone else joining us.

It was a two hour ride to the jellyfish lake where a jetty provided us handy access to the nearby lake.   The lake didn’t have any visible jellyfish but once we lowered ourselves into the lake, we didn’t have to go far to see them.

There were many small ones and a few large ones with fluffier tentacles.  Some had a nice bluish tinge to them.  Marco took some pictures with his phone in his splash-proof pouch.  It didn’t do a good job; we thought it might be either plastic pouch blurring the pictures or the camera focusing at the wrong distance.  With the focus manually fixed about half-an-arm’s length, Marco’s pictures were pretty stunning, so we knew it wasn’t the pouch at all.

It was only a few minutes on one engine backtrack to get to Carina Beach, named after a Spanish girl who gave it a name … hers!

On Carina Beach, the boatman set us up under the shade of some coconut trees, away from the possibility of any falling coconuts.  It was around midday already.  We had a packed lunch of rice, sambal egg and veges washed down with water and coffee.

We had a couple of hours of swimming and snorkelling in the crystal clear waters that lay beyond the powder white sands of Carina Beach.  The coral there was very beautiful and there were a nice mix of reef fish.

We left after 1500 for a slower journey back to Pokipoki.  As most of us needed a toilet break, we stopped at Kayumi for a snorkel and a wee.  I must say, this was the most beautiful toilet stop I’ve ever made on any form of transport.  The coral was stunning but were different at Carina Beach; here they were of the larger variety.  Apart from the reef fish, we saw a lobster partially under a rock.

We got back to Pokipoki at 1800 after a long but thoroughly enjoyable day.