Sunday, August 17, 2008

Nudibranchs in Nha Trang

Nha Trang is the up-scale coastal city with all the whistles and bells you need for a beach vacation. To get right down to it, we booked a one day SCUBA trip, which was Brooke's first time diving. She's a natural.
Conditions were very good, and the shallow reef seemed well protected. We saw all the usual tropical fish, anemones, urchins, puffers, shrimp, eel, sea cucumbers, nudibranch (just one, but it was beautiful), sea stars... and on and on. Not a lot of big fish, probably because of the shallow depth.
After an amazing morning of diving we took the afternoon to completely dishearten ourselves by attempting repeatedly to purchase plane tickets to Beijing for the fifth time, only to be denied over and over, and have our cards blocked for suspicious activity. Grrrrr.
I think, maybe, we've got it taken care of now, and will actually be able to make it to Beijing. For a minute there it wasn't looking good.

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