Paw Paw - Log Day 203: Sunday with a Difference

This morning meant an early start to have breakfast, get ready for the day and then enjoy a morning stroll along the promenade on our way to Sunday Mass at the Catholic Cathedral.

It was hard not to be moved by the service, given the very relaxed family atmosphere, the spectacular setting, the beautiful singing and the straight talking priest, who, at times, was so blunt, he made us laugh. Most unusual though was the swarm of delighted children who ran up to the alter at a certain time during the service to receive their blessing.

We'd barely made it back to Paw Paw when our floating neighbours on Cetacea (Gale and Tony) popped over to invite us to go snorkeling with them together with Qi (Galyn and Thomas) whom we had met at one of the Happy Hours.

After meeting on the dock at the designated time, we all took the short walk to the Palolo Deep Marine Reserve and had the most unusual snorkel - inside the crater of an inactive underwater volcano. The coral was unbelievable. We've never seen such an abundance of variety and colours and so intricate. Some of it looked like oversized bunches of beautiful flowers. Unfortunately we didn't take the camera.

We also saw Sea Dragons which we didn't even know existed, as well as fish with the most amazing designs that weren't the usual stripes of varying size or colour, but more geometric.

Ashore was a scattering of beach fales, picnic tables, tree-swings, showers and toilets. Definitely somewhere we'd like to go back to for a beach day and take some photographs.

Tonight we joined Cetacea for dinner at Giodanos Pizzeria and enjoyed their Wood Fired Oven pizzas washed down with a tasty red wine - Delicious!