Location: Nuku Hiva, The Marquesas
West Philadelphia, born and raised, in the playground where I spent most of my days, chilling out, maxing, relaxing all cool outside the school, when a couple of kids, who were up to no good, started making trouble in my neighborhood. I got in one little fight, and my mom got scared. She said, Youre moving with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air. Yo, yo, its ya boi, big J. Commonly called Jonas Samuel Jarecki. Today was a good day (you guys ever heard that hit song by Ice Cube?), Will was the head chef, so that meant banger food after banger food. For breakfast, we had French toast.
Fitting, considering we are in French Polynesia (sp?). After breaking our fast, we headed to some point with some name where there were supposedly manta rays. I really had no idea what was going on most of the time. Anywho, at this point with some name, we saw exactly zero manta rays, although we did see some hammerhead sharks, which were sick. After that, we came back to Argo and had lunch, and we also had a quiz for Marine Bio. After the quiz, we had a bit of free time until we picked up an hour and moved back to where we had gone snorkeling or Mantas to give it one last shot, and guess what? It was worth it. At first, the snorkelers only saw more sharks, but as soon as they got back on the boat, a whole school of Mantas swam up to us, and everyone got back in. They are amazing animals.
Additionally, Martin H. and I cleaned out the oil that had spilled to the bottom of the Anchor locker, so that was thrilling. After the Mantas, we kept moving around a different point and dropped anchor once again in a new cove. We saw some more Mantas off the deck of Argo, and had a great Sloppy Joe dinner. However, unfortunatley this new Bay does not have any service, so to all the mothers and fathers and sisters and brothers let me on behalf of my fellow Agronauts say, Mom, Dad, Sister, Brother, I know I forgot to send a text saying I wont have anymore service for a few days, but love you lots and I totally maxed out the credit card xoxo.
Signed – Jonas. J. King among men.