Over our spring break we had visitors! Ryan and Anna Gerber came out to Kwajalein and we spent the week snorkeling, sun tanning, boating and flying all over the atoll! It was a great time and the following pictures offer many of the highlights from the trip!
Here are Anna and Ryan snorkeling over the drop off Oceanside. You can sort of see the way the atoll drops from 40 feet to thousands of feet in an instant beneath them. It was really neat to swim over the drop off as there is nothing but empty blue beneath you.
Here is Ryan with a brittle star we found on Bigi. They are weird little creatures and cool to find.
We were able to go out deep sea fishing one day and we had perfect weather and a great time! No one got sea sick and we even caught a couple of fish. The waves were pretty big at different times, but we sure enjoyed it! This had to be one of the highlights of our time!
Here are the 2 fish that we caught. The one on the left is an Ono and it provided a lot of fish steaks, which we definitely enjoyed! It was awesome to catch the fish ourselves and then cook it up and eat it just a few hour later! The fish on the right is a Mahi Mahi and it made for some excellent fish tacos. We were just thankful to catch something and it sure was fun!
Here is a picture of us from sunrise service on Easter morning. It was a really neat service and fun to see people get baptized in the lagoon. Ryan and Anna were up every morning before the sunset anyways, with the time change, so this was great!
Here are Mindi and Anna on the front of the boat up at Bigi! This was one of the most fun things as well as we had a fun time snorkeling, sun bathing and trying not to get burned, or burned worse in case one of us forgot sunscreen on their feet!
This was during the tour the first day and is the highest point in all of the Marshall Islands, even though it is a manmade hill. It gave us a good view of the island and the atoll.
Here we are relaxing at the snake pit during the first evening. It was awesome catching up and relaxing as 20 feet in front of us was the ocean!
We were able to fly up to Roi for the day one day and here is us on the beach. No one in sight!! We ate at the only restaurant and enjoyed some great time in the sun before flying back to Kwaj.
Here is Ryan and Anna on Roi looking down one of the cool roads lined by palm trees
We had dinner on the beach several evenings, and the sunset on this particular night was really awesome, so we got pictures in front of it.
Here is Ryan and Anna in front of the sunset.
We had a truly awesome time with them!
Summer isn't to far away and we are very excited to see everyone when we return to Lincoln soon!
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