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Published: October 16th 2008
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We woke up pleased that we could go to breakfast when we wanted rather than being called by the drum. It opened at 8am and as Matt’s Padi course started at 9am we headed straight down.
After we’d eaten Matt headed off for the day. It was strange - we’ve been together all day every day for the past two months and saying goodbye for the day felt very strange. He headed off to watch his diving videos for the day. I sat in the comfy area of the dining room and started reading my book. After a while the sun looked too inviting so I headed to the beach. It was almost empty, so was the lagoon, so I just divided my time between swimming and laying. I felt sorry for Matt cooped up in a classroom watching videos that he had to memorise ready for the exam later in the week.
At lunchtime Matt appeared and we decided to order some fish and chips for lunch while he told me all about what he’d learnt. The first part of the video had mostly been about safety and he was finding it quite hard going with lots of
facts to remember. After an hour he headed back and I went back to my sunlounger again to carry on reading and swimming. I’d been waiting for someone to go out snorkelling all day so that I could suss it out - was there a gap to follow in the coral, was there a particular time of day that was safest etc. But nobody had gone out, in fact I was the only one who’d even ventured into the water at all and by the looks of the few people laying on the beach they weren’t going to make any moves any time soon. I decided to give it and go, so got my things ready and dived in.
After swimming out past the sandy part there was lots of grass in the water, and then this was followed by low lying coral. On the way out I saw a shoal of strange looking fish - they were more than a foot long and had long thin pointy sword noses with a blueish colouring. They were too small to be sword fish but they looked like minature skinny versions of them. As I went further out, the coral got
more dense and then became a drop off. The coral was teeming with fish; not as many as at Octopus, but here there were fish I hadn’t seen before. I was pleased to finally see my first blue star fish, and then within minutes I’d seen three of them! There was a beautiful large moorish idol, lots of trigger fish and different butterfly fish, plenty of six bar wrasse, a gorgeously dozy looking false-eye toby who sat looking at me for ages before deciding to swim off quickly as I tried to take his picture, various bream, sailfin tang, lined bristle tooth and lots more.
When I came back to shore Matt was sitting on my sun bed watching me. He’d managed to watch one full video and was now onto another. It was already 4pm but it didn’t look like he was going to be finished any time soon.
After a few minutes he headed back with the logic that the sooner he got on with it the sooner he could finish. I headed back to our room to have a shower and coffee and let my skin cool down after a full day of sunshine.
Matt didn’t appear until after 5.30pm. He looked tired out and said he’d got lots more videos left to watch and still hadn’t done any actual dives yet even though the video said he should have done some by now. We got ready quickly and headed downstairs so that we could have dinner and get back to our room early to give him a chance to do some more revision.
We asked for our half bottle of wine we’d stored from last night, and then decided to just have starters for dinner seeing as we’d had a big lunch. I was impressed we both stuck to this pact as the evening dinner menu sounded lovely. Instead we had pitta breads and pesto, with spring rolls and sweet chilli sauce to share all for the bargain price of about £6. We even managed to leave before being asked if we’d like any desert (if they‘d asked I‘m sure I‘d have said yes!).
We’re loving it at Nanuya. It seems to have everything just right - it’s quiet, has a lovely beach, good snorkelling, a beautiful lagoon, a dive shop and good food. We’re so glad we ended up deciding
to stay here for seven nights. This is certainly another place to come back to.
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