Colonia, Yap, FSM

Today we did the tourist thing and visited galleries, gift shops, and attempted to visit the governor who enjoys meeting people. As his office is across the hall from L's brother-in-law, this was not difficult. Alas, he was busy in a staff meeting.

We moved on to tour the national legislature and meet two senators from the outer island. They are friendly and warm folks. L later met the governor in passing and he gave her the key....to the restroom in the building. In the spirit of good relations with Texas, he instructed his assistant to lend out the private stock of TP. I guess that make her an ambassador. I missed out.

We spent part of the day watching the launch of a traditional canoe from the port area. There was a Japanese film crew filming a documentary and we were able to snap a few pictures.
Tomorrow, day two of diving. We are doing a light drift dive first and a second dive to see sharks. Should be cool.

Oh!, On Thursday's dive Ron took a video using his digital camera of the Manta ray we saw. It is a large file, but if you have a high speed connection it should load fairly quickly. If not and you are on dial up, it may take about 10 minutes: www.justusconsultants.com\manta.mpg.