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Yesterday, Sunday, stayed beautiful and sunny so we went snorkelling at last, the first time in the tropics for ages for us.
The sea was a bit fresh to start with but then so much to distract from that, it was brilliant, lots of darting tiny fish, all sorts of corals and colours, anemones and their clownfish, a few shoals swimming around and the big fish and turtles over in the deeper drop off, even a curious white tip shark that I was hoping would be more scared of me than I was of it, but cruised by almost within arms reach.

We woke to another beautiful morning and left Baie d'Oro to motorsail round to the NE of Isle de Pins, meanwhile the cloud and drizzle reappeared, but we also saw a humpback whale in the lagoon and a few dolphins, so it was a nice trip, and now we're anchored in Baie de Ouameo.

The plan was to dinghy out to go snorkelling around the Valllee de Gorgones area this afternoon with more wonderfully healthy coral, where eagle rays would look like they are flying in the crystal waters and leopard sharks can be spotted, but that was earlier on before the cloud came down and the drizzle started and a book seems more appealing.
Perhaps tomorrow?

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