Surfing, Diving, Bananas, and Island Culture
Hello from Kosrae! The past few weeks have been wonderfully full of surfing, scuba diving, local culture, laughing with the girls in my efforts to learn Kosraean, bananas, banana bread, banana fibers, banana wallets, and a few coconuts. Most mornings I amble out of bed to the colorful, expansive Pacific Ocean and let the waves and sun wake me up. However, last week brought the surf, dive, surf rhythm to my days. One morning I heard, “Claudia, Claudia, surf bus is leaving in ten minutes!” Sunrise surf sessions are a super duper way to start the day. I've been loving scuba diving since that first spontaneous encounter (story in the previous blog). I went diving in Lelu harbor at two of the shipwrecks! Apparently there are four ships and two or three planes from World War II. Much of WWII was fought out here. The visibility was very poor because the bottom is silty but swimming around was wild! We swam over the deck, as if we were walking around the ship. The best word I can thin