{"id":413,"date":"2019-07-29T14:15:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T14:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/palau\/?p=413"},"modified":"2022-05-21T18:49:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T18:49:44","slug":"day-8-off-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/palau\/2019\/07\/29\/day-8-off-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 8: Off-day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today was our day off from regular class activities. The group split up and went to do various activities around Palau. Destiny, Dylan, and Scott went diving with Sam’s Tours; below are some of the photos taken on their dive trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Destiny on the first dive at Big Drop-off<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A juvenile midnight snapper <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A dwarfgoby on a fan coral <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A wire coral goby on a wire coral <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The fuzzy red thing is an orangutan crab<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A tiny whip coral shrimp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A longnose hawkfish<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A spotfin lionfish <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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An extremely cryptic decoy scorpionfish <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After our first dive, we went to a beautiful secluded beach for lunch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For our second dive, we visited Ngerchong Reef, a slow sloping reef still recovering from a typhoon that came through six years ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A school of bumphead parrotfish returning from spawning <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A rust-spotted guard crab hiding in a coral<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Once we were finished diving, we visited a few souvenir shops, got some coffee, and then ended the evening at burger shack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The remaining members of the class spent the day visiting PCC, going souvenir shopping, swimming in a freshwater creek, and snorkeling near a reef. We started off the day at Palau’s community college in Koror to visit their rhinoceros beetle lab. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Simone holding the larva of a rhinoceros beetle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After the lab we wandered around Koror visiting local souvenir shops and eating at a local coffee shop. While at the coffee shop we happened to see Pia Mia, a famous singer from Guam. We then traveled to a swimming hole that is a favorite among Palauan high schoolers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Simone and Sofia holding on against the current<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After the freshwater creek we decided to go snorkeling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sofia and Katherine walking down the pier<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pictured above is Tate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Picture above is Sofia <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dark Knee Hermit Crab (Dardanus lagopodes) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We ended in the evening at a local Vietnamese restaurant before returning home. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today was our day off from regular class activities. The group split up and went to do various activities around Palau. Destiny, Dylan, and Scott went diving with Sam’s Tours; below are some of the photos taken on their dive trip. After our first dive, we went to a beautiful secluded beach for lunch. For … <\/p>\n

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