Coralview Snorkel
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Tue 8 Sep 2015 22:47
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Snorkel Over at Coralview
Resort to Find the Giant Clam
  Patrick, one of the boat drivers who
took us to the meke at Coralview Resort, told us that the snorkelling over here
was special as giant clams had ‘been seeded’. We arrived at eleven just as the
tide was beginning to come in, the lads in the shop told us to wait awhile as
not to get scratched in the shallows. Nothing for it but to have a drink and
enjoy the sunshine. Might as well have a bite to
eat. Bear enjoyed fish and chips and I had a toasted sandwich,
sitting in the sunshine was a joy. Then to the water just off the beach, within
seconds we were in a massive stretch of hard coral.
   Hard but
pretty.
  Soft corals
too.
   Some different
chaps.
  This chap
posed for a second then got back to his
chomping.
  A couple of the usual suspects – a blue starfish and an
anemone carrying bits and bobs.
   We try to remember the brown chaps and these are really funny.
   They are so territorial, bring up
their fins to look huge and aggressive but they seem
to have a smile on their face and then turn in a huff, hilarious.
  Then we found some giant clams. Bear refused flatly to put his hand anywhere
near them to show their size – so they could be three inches across. I read about men being drowned when they got their foot
stuck, what was that in a boys comic........I only wanted you to put
your hand near them to show perspective. Well ....... Look, they close their shell in defence
not aggression and they don’t shut that quickly, some can’t shut completely.
No. Ok then, our readers will have to take
our word that they were eighteen inches and two feet across. They can grow to
over four feet, weigh four hundred pounds and live for a century – once fixed,
in the same spot.
 Nearly missed this
chap on the way back to Baby Beez.
ALL IN ALL A LOVELY
DAY
AWESOME TO SEE THE GIANT
CLAMS |