These massive star fish were everywhere. We snorkelled the ship wreck in the background which was full of fish and really neat as it dropped from 2 - 20 metres deep from the front to back of the ship.
Many tongans live in some primative houses but all still have sky tv.
A cool little hermit crab.
Lizard on a coconut palm
Another massive tongan spider which were hanging between every tree
This is how the locals catch fish. They fish follow the fence along and get feed into these round fences at the end where they are stuck. We saw the locals checking the traps. They just cut them all in half with a masshete - an interesting way to kill them.
Coconut forest and scrub covered the middle of the island
We found heaps of interesting sea life on our snorkell. Blue, green soft and hard corals, massive shells, massive star fish, anenomes, pufer fish and hundreds of types of small fish.
22 August 2010
On Sunday in Tonga EVERYTHING is closed and everyone goes to church. If you go swimming on a public beach or are foudn fishing you actually get a fine. So we caught a ferry to one of the inner islands Pangaimotu for the day.
It only took us 30 minutes to walk around the island so we had fun snorkelling, and swimming all day. It was the first time I had snorkelled a wreck which turned out to be really exciting.
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