As I surface from the underwater world I notice that Fatima is back and is talking to Hugo and Andrej while her husband is having a conversation with Willie. She comes to me and I give her my e-mail address. She tells me that it is not a coincidence that we’ve met and that we will hear from one another again. I will be so happy to continue my conversation with her and to get to know her and her family better.
On with our dive-crawling and the next stop is where several boats, hovering slowly over the coral reefs, can be seen. Willie and I go in first and I get smashed on the shallow reef a few times before entering into deeper waters. What we see is breathtaking – a never-ending lush, colorful underwater coral garden with fish – big and small, different shapes, sizes, colors, everywhere – as far as the eye can see – a magic, silent, unseen, underwater world – magnificent, brilliant, wonderful, dazzling, bravura fall short in describing the beauty!
We see two new species of birds and suddenly a very unusual bird appears from nowhere – we could not identify it, except that it kept on saying, “I’m hungry, I’m hungry…!”We are still working on it.