Team JMS: Saipan Day 3 - New Years Eve

Day 3 - December 31

This was the first day JM and I just randomly picked a beach on the tourist map of Saipan and drove over to it. Laulau Bay was a recommended snorkelling site. It was our first adventure on the mopeds, and we loved it!! So much fun driving around on those babies.

We arrived at the very private Laulau beach in the mid-afternoon and it was gorgeous. There was not a person in sight, and we did not see another person for the rest of the day. We got our snorkel gear on and hit the water. It was a little rough though, so we chose to stay closer to the shore. The waves on the break were a couple feet high and we were a little afraid of getting caught in some rip tide, especially me because I'm not a strong swimmer. Hours passed and we saw so many fish!! We swam all the way out to the reef where the fish were colourful and abundant. There was even a mama fish protecting her rock. She kept aggressively swimming at us when we got too close. We saw lots of coral and sea urchins too.

After the best day yet, we got dressed up and headed into town for a romantic New Years Eve dinner at Aglaia and then we crashed a beach party to celebrate the start of 2013! It was so much fun.

Lau Lau Beach

Brain Coral

Yellow fishy!

Protective Mama fish

Yellow fish are my favourite!

(Sadly, we did not have an underwater camera, so those are not our pictures, but ones I found on the internet of exactly the same fish we saw!)