Sharks Part 2 and other assorted goodies!!

Wow, I sure am sorry it's taken so long to get back to you on that one... don't worry, I haven't been eaten, and it WAS a white tip although apparently they get the occasional great white inside the lagoon (or so I hear).
This is Pete by the way. So, allow me to elaborate on that last post: we went to a little island off of this island. The little island is called Black Coral. It is private property, just land owned by a family. If you know the guy or if you get ahold of his phone number you can go. It's really beautiful. By many accounts the best snorkeling around Pohnpei. This is because fishing is forbidden. So, the fish population and coral are left fairly untouched and teeming with life. And where there's a teeming fish population, there's a teeming fish population, there's a teeming shark population!
Black coral consists of two TINY pieces of land with a small channel between them which has the bluest water I've ever seen. The channel can get some pretty strong currents going, regardless what the current is like in the greater lagoon because, well... it is a channel. It is easy to be a happy and sated snorkeler after a long day of simply swimming in this little channel, but I decided to explore so two other guys and I went out a little further.
As we swam away from black coral, the coral beneath us got deeper and deeper down until it was perhaps 80 feet down (at which point the bottom was still clearly visible). On the swim out we saw a shark or two just resting on the bottom. I can safely say the rumor that sharks never stop swimming is bullshit. Anyway, when we got too close they would get up and swim away. Black tips and white tips maybe 5 feet long. When we got to a certain point the coral just dropped off into the deep abyss of ocean. At the edge were thousands of fish!! We saw a school of Barracudas, maybe two or three dozen of them. A giant school of fish with hundreds of members just sitting there in the shape of one giant fish. It was fun to dive as deep as possible and stir them up.
Then we saw more sharks. Up to this point we'd seen three or four swimming alone, but now we saw a pack of four or five grey reef sharks. Those things are big and sleek and these ones were circling. We were all really pumped at the prospect of seeing an actual shark kill. We waited for a while but alas they moved on.
We saw the water from the channel was getting a little murky indicating that the current was turning against us so we decided to head in. We made our way back, and as we approached the head of the channel the current became considerably strong (the easiest way to land is through the channel). So we've reached the channel (we're in like 6 foot deep water) and I'm going only slightly faster in my direction then the current is going the opposite direction. I turn my head to the right as I prepare to cross the channel to land and there, no more than 10-15 feet away from me, swimming with the current and with unsettling ease, possessing a body longer than my own is a white tip shark. I watched it for a second, raised my head to tell my friends, looked back and it was gone.
Shortly thereafter we made land and told stories over our fire and under the infinite stars.

I realize I shifted to 1st person, but it just felt right. Ok, I'll have to get back to you with the "assorted goods" promised by this post's title.

Much love