More Fiji Pics and My DH!

I'm going to start with a lovely picture of flowers my Dear Husband brought home to me on Friday afternoon : >


Dori's from Fiji. This picture is for Tenna, Clark and Andi...


And a few more pictures from the wedding. Me and Jimmy (notice Jay in the background : > )


Jimmy and Jay had a good laugh...


Paolo doubled as a dancer after serving as a dive master during the day! Very talented indeed. It was really fun to watch him dance with the others after a week of diving.

WEDDING PIC's (at last!)

We went to our 'dive trip' reunion and finally got some pictures of the wedding from the other folks on the trip with us : >. They didn't know that I had accidentally deleted 'all' the photos from my camera. So now, thanks to Rob and Rachelle (our witnesses), John and Holly, Dave and Leann, Jerry, Terry, Colette, Jacquie, Heather and last but not least Michael from the Scuba Utah trip we have our photos. The staff at the Garden Island Resort (Ngaire and Dennis Irwin managers) were absolutely WONDERFUL the entire week and we especially want to thank them for making our wedding such a terrific event for us!!! Thanks to everyone! The dive crew were TOP NOTCH and we saw many amazing and beautiful things under water all week long. The housekeeping staff did a fabulous job of running the place! Food was great, and the rooms always neat and clean. The things done for the wedding were beyond words~!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you all!!!! Enjoy...
First a little of the underwater scenery, thank to the terrific photography works of several of the Dive Masters on our adventure





Yours truly floatin' underwater


This picture is a little too small to see all the lovely little christmas tree nudibranchs in their variety of color resting on the coral. As you can tell by the few pictures here, the colors were spectacular!


And now for the wedding. This is our wedding mat and arch prepared for us by the local Fijian people on Taveuni. We got to keep the wedding mat and still have the mat and will display it at home!


The vows with the Minister, Esala Nasaroa. He is such a wonderful man, and this bride was moved by his sweet nature in delivering the wedding vows. It was very obvious that he enjoyed doing weddings, and loved what it represented...


Jimmy (one of the dive masters) Minister Nasaroa and yours truly after the big event.


Ngaire and Dennis who organized the event (I'm sure like most weddings, I know who does the MAJOR work!). It was lovely and hopefully I'll get a copy of the wedding cake picture. Ngaire made a traditional fruit cake from their native New Zealand. It was delish! I usually am not fond of fruit cake, but this was extraordinare!


The entire crew from Scuba Utah at the wedding : >


The Dancing and Celebration!!!


Jay pays homage (just kidding). We do thank everyone for a wonderful wedding!


I plan to put a few more photos up in a different post of more of the diving and the WONDERFUL crew there.

Delinquent Blogger does POST!

Greetings ALL! My humble apologies for taking SOOOOOO long to post. I was stalling, hoping to get some wedding photos available, but haven't had any success yet, so they will be forthcoming. In the meantime, here is the calander of events:

March 19th: We leave for our trip to Fiji

March 20 something to 28th. We go to Fiji and have a WONDERFUL time diving (pictures will come as soon as we steal them from the other divers!).

MARCH 27!!! Lynne and Jay get Married in Fiji. Again the pictures will follow as soon as we steal them from the other divers. I accidentally deleted them from my camera, but we DO have a video that one of the other couples took. I just have to get the right cables to allow us to download. I will say, that it was a PERFECT day. We started off the morning with a dive. Before we got to the dive site, we were greeted with 4 pods of dolphins. It was an AMAZING sight! Our boat captain just drove around to the different pods while they were playing. No SeaWorld show could compare! After that we had our final wonderful dive in Fiji. The soft coral were all colors of orange, pink, purple, white... and we were in an area where we would pop our head up over the reef (where the current was swiftly flowing over) and saw a feeding world of the smaller colorful fish! All colors darting in and out, grabbing the food that flowed by. Wowwwwww.

Mar. 28th - Apr. 4th we go to Australia. Here we see lots of beautiful things on land and sea. We spent three nights on board a Mike Ball live aboard. The seas were a bit rough at this time of year but we still saw lots of fun things like the potatoe cod, white tip reef sharks and plenty of beautiful reef fish.
This is our WONDERFUL boat crew. A fun, professional (made sure everyone was ALWAYS accounted for after a dive), genuine group. And the food... Fantastic!!!


This is our group of divers, notice the newleyweds in the bottom right...


Here's a picture of my guy as he's 'stepping off' of the platform (about 10 feet above water) entry. I will get some picts from Jay and post them soon. He took some nice picts of our diving adventures. Noooo Jay.... don't j...u...m...p!!!



After the dive trip we did a little exploring in the upper Queensland region in the Daintree Rainforest area. It is the oldest rainforest on the planet and has some wonderful sights. We took a boat trip down the Daintree River with Chris Dahlberg. It was a really fun trip and Chris knows TONS about the area. One of the more spectacular things we saw were these 'Frogmouth' birds. They are well camoflauged so look CAREFULLY...


We also saw a python, a really cool spider (not a funnel web!), a crock in the water and lots of other birds. We also heard the kukaburra's laughing. Fun, fun, fun for an avid birder.

From Australia, we went to Japan to see Nicole and crew.
We timed it really well as the Sakura were in bloom. So we all went for a walk down to the park so Clark could see the Sakana (fish) and we could see the cherry blossoms. I love the look on Clarks face as Grandpa Jay keeps a watchful hand on our youthful fish observer.


And finally the blossoms. Enjoy

We will post the wedding photos and story when we get the picts.