The tour steph and i had today involed (as implied by the title of this blog) a bike ride and a sail and snorkle. The bike ride took us up onto one of the islands big mountains with the aim to gain a good view of the island. Unfortuantely for us the smoke from one of the active volcanos from another island blocke most of the view! The ride was awesome, riding down the mountain, with a view which was still increadible. It was nice to get a bit of excercise as well (even though it was mostly a downhill ride...).
After that they carted us off in a mini van to the harbour to get on the boat. The sail out to sea was pretty choppy and it began to get quite cold, but the water was still nice! On our way out the tour guide spotted a turtle and we got all Japanese tourist on that thing, snapping away at it, not realising we were about to go swimming with them!
We feed the fishies and the turtles come along for the fishies to clean their shells so they hang around us, it was so cool. We are not ment to touch them, but Steph, being the rebel she is, did. They were so calm and sweet, but would sink down away from us into the water and down to the reef. The fish were all so close as well, but imposible to touch! They are so deceptively quick! Over all though it was a great day and the tour was a great lot of fun. Getting out to see the island was great, both up the hill and out to sea! We also made some friends from our hotel who were also on the tour, yay! were not loners any more... ones Aussie and the other is from Switzerland and were all going surfing together tomorrow :)
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