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Our current location is 7 degrees 30′ North, 133 degrees 30′ East. We are in Koror, Republic of Palau, another island which was bombed by the Americans in 1944. This was a fierce battle between the Japanese and the U.S. and thousands of people died in these beautiful islands. They say, more people died here than live here.
Nowadays it is very peaceful and all tropical paradise. We arrived here 2 days ago and did our first dive day with ” Fish and Fins” dive shop today. We finally found some great diving again. There are walls, big drop-offs, lots of coral and schools of hundreds of tropical fish ! We came pretty close to reef sharks ( fairly harmless ), saw turtles, huge Napolean Wrasses, barracudas, large mackarels and schools of hundreds of tropical fish.
At the ” Blue Corner” dive site, Gabi tried out her new reefhook. We were hanging at the edge of the abyss and peering over the wall into the deep blue with reef sharks chasing smaller fish. Pretty cool for us, not so much for the smaller fish !
Above water, we cruised between the Rock Islands, which are an amazing sight. Hundreds of limestone, mushroom shaped islands with the ocean chewing at their bases. They are covered by dense green rainforest, a nice contrast to the blue sky and turquoise water color. This is finally how we expected the tropical Pacific to look like ! Diving here today was worth carrying all that equipment around the globe ! I probably have nitrogen narcosis by now !

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