Inner Beach with the expats

On Good Friday the boys were out of school.   Many of their friends were heading to the beach and we were invited to participate on this day, too.   For the first time since we’ve been in Papua we went from early am until after dark at the beach to the ‘Inner Beach’. 

The Inner Beach is loaded with good snorkeling and nice white sandy beaches but the one draw backs is you have to plan ahead and charter a speed boat because the trails leading to it are not much in the way of ADA accessible.  

Here I’m scouting for under water “boat sinkers” --  those bits of coral reef that sink boats if not avoiding them when coming through the passage ways to the beach.

We spent the day snorkeling, swimming, lobster-fying ourselves a.k.a. sun-burning, gabbing with the other expats that came along with us – approximately 68 others who had the same idea as we had.   But that’s not bad considering if this beach were somewhat easy to reach it would have several thousand on it because it’s so beautiful.

Aubrey and Andrew and friends coming in on the slower outrigger long boat.

Love the shade on this beach.

Those are real blue star fish on our boogie board that Aubrey dove and caught.

Grilling vegetables over the fire with Brian Stubbs and friends.

Me and my love at sundown.   Heaven is touching earth with rest!   “Thank you Lord for the Sabbath and for a wonderful woman and family to welcome it with.”

Hallelujah that He arose up so that I can spend eternity watching Sunsets like this one.