Diving Lessons

Rachel was so excited to get dive certified while here!!
She says her next trip over here will be mainly a dive trip :)

After the pool work it was time to practice those learned skills in open water at Tengan Pier!

We "just happened" to be diving at the same spot :)
(Rachel is straight behind Rodney's right shoulder.)

She can breathe underwater!!

A few of the fun creatures we saw...

Count those arms!

A poisonous Crown of Thorns starfish. He had to be more than a foot in diameter!

I don't know what these are, but they remind me of lavender.

Good ole' sea cucumbers.

This seemed like a good place to put in a few other beach pictures....

Courtney Beach
(If I'd snapped just a split second later, I'd have caught them both down in the water! Yep, a mis-step caused quite a splash :)

A lovely picture of Rachel at low tide on Courtney Beach.

Egrets on a rock outcropping at Kadena Marina

Rodney in search of sea glass at Tengan Pier.

Rachel's searching, too!!

Sunset Beach by American Village
While we were walking around there, they were actually calling the swimmers out of the water due to jellyfish!