Oh wait a minute, these tarsier monkeys are still on my own island on the way to camiguin. Some facts: these are primates, not monkeys. They only exist on Phillie's and Indonesia. They can jump meters and prefer doing nothing (like myself). But this church was the highlight of my trip.
Under the cross is a sunken cemetery. Camiguin has the highest Vulcano density in the world. So why do you think this cemetry sunk?
I call this a jeepcycle (combi of jeepney and tricycle). It is a short term smart solution of transporting more people with a 100CC engine and making more money, but a long term attack on the health of these people
My teinted relative
My new house ( I wished)
My six pack (at least)
Famous picture, featured in many guidebooks
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turtlehead at walindi (that featured as homepage picture of the website yesterday)
white tips, grey reef, grey whalers and even the ellusive bronze whaler. Incredible, the blacktips came right to the beach and swam around my legs.
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WOII wreck just of the beach
. They are namely Melenasian in stead of Polynesian!! Chances are you have never heart of Vanuatu, although it is famous forn othing less than three things: 1. they were the last to stop with Canabalism (like 50 years ago), although I heard they still do it for special occasions (like weddings may be). Also they still eat a lot of turtles and dugongs (you remember, sea sows that I also saw in Florida). By the way, highlight of my trip and very lucky (although I flew solely for this reason to an island called Epi), I saw one while snorkeling (see pictures and video)!!!
Also a number of Temptation island shows (with Rebecca Loos) were shot here. Electricity and water is scarce and internet/telephone unknown most of the time. Communication is by drums and shouting very loud.
I got invited many times to visit villages and peoples houses. The people life simple (but often with TV and DVD that work for a few hours per day on a generator) and with the whole family together. 50% of the people are local Fiji (typical south pacific island people with wide nodes and small curly hair, not so pretty girls!, not so active) and 50% Indians (prettier girls, more active). Tradition plays a big role. Villages have chiefs (like CEO's). When visiting a village you have to ask permission from the chief and sometimes you are welcomed with a kava ceremony. Also you bring unprocessed kava as a gift. Kava is a kind of leaf thing crushed and mized with water. It tasts like muddy water, but that is not important, village people sepnd the whole night sitting on the ground drinking kava and talking.
Is is actually a medicine and makes your tong num,b and actually your whole body if you drink enough. Also as a former English colony, tea is big here, as well as rugby!
(especially after the coup, more about that later). Unfortunately also a lot of US citizens, but hey, they were able to found Fiji, so they can not be that bad. Then of course a lot of celebrities that stay on nice private islands for a few thousand per night.
but also rainforest, great for hiking, which of course I did a lot and waterfalls. Some animals, not so many on land. Resorts: Great, 35 euro a night with all meals included, huts on the beach and sometimes even a swimming pool. Free crabs, touts (like frogs) and nice big spiders on your mosquito net and in bags included. 
Oh, I almost forgot that I also saw the endemic Kadavu Parrot (blue-red-green)!
vulcanic "stones", coming from an eruption in Tonga. A little bit less funny: We lost a guy on a hike (you see, I did do hiking). He was found 1.5 days later (still alive). 
These Amish live very simple and in a closed community without modern comforts, they say. However, we saw them using cars and mobile phones...mmmm. I hope they do not use internet and read blogs too...Following our instincts the next day we already went to the first island: Ambergris Caye. Unfortunately this is still a little bit too close to US state 51, so we ended up in very loud crowds of fat drinking game fishing Americans with sleeveless shirts saying "shut up, just fish". But the snorkeling of a boat trip was great, not so much coral, but nurse sharks and sting rays everywhere. 
However, a critical note, they came because they were being fed, a very controversial method. It can lead to dangerous situations and their natural behaviour (looking for food) is being disturbed. But now I also know how Steve Irwin died. These rays were so gentle that I could lift them out of the water and they did everything to avoid using their sting. Irwin was good for animals, but he must have annoyed his fatal stingray really badly. Anyway, it was a great gameviewing day, because afterwards we went to the lagoon behind the beach. We took a bike and had to cross the airstrip, looking left-right and again left).There we found a bunch of crocodiles!!! Unfortunately, again they were being fed. So mixed feelings again! Anyway, here are some great pictures and a video from up close. 
They say salt water crocs are the most dangerous animals in the water alive, but again my theory was proven that animals do not attack people unless they can not do anything else. I came up to a few meters and the 2-3 meter sweeties just jumped/swam off, looking scared!! Big bird watched the whole scene.
So next stop Caye Caulker, more relaxed and again nurse sharks, rays and one crocodile. But in the split (stupid looking bit of sandy water) we found a long nose bat fish (Rob looked up on the web), that looked like a frog that was chemically treated and smashed by a car) and an eagle ray in 2 meters deep water (normally deep water animals).
We even met two different people from Den Haag, we knew. Then I said goodbye to Rob and went off for a few days of Cozumel, the diving and cruiseship capital of Mexico. Diving was very good: increadible visibility and 5 turtles, 3 black tip reef sharks and 3 nurse sharks! So now have to run to fly from Cancun to Los Angeles (skating along venice beach?) and then the day after to Fiji...yours, Sander
One was like 100 meters away from the spring beach were we swam. But unfortunately I could not add amazing creature number three to my "swimming with creatures" list and may be better so. ... Oh in between in Ginnie springs I snorkeled a river and saw strange long fish (alligator rods) and turtles. But more interesting, the alligator story continued in a little bit more dramatic way. On my way from Tallahassee to Miami (for flight to Cancun to meet Rob) by rental car I took another small kayak trip. I ended up being lost with as great feature a lot of alligators in dead end rivers too close to my boat (one actually hit my boat). That was not so funny anymore: completely alone, complete lost and completely surrounded by sometimes ten 3 meter allogators. I ended up parking my kayak on a small beach, hiking through a small swamp (also not so funny)and walking on the road back to the kayak rental people. So fooks, I think that is enough for the first two weeks. If my trip continues like this...
. Maybe back to the South Pacific to play dive instructor, to New Zealand to ski, to the less visited western part of Australia or to Papua to find this recenty discovered vacuum cleaning shark. Ideas enough. I will keep you posted...