Our 19-Month-Old vs. a Thousand Fish (Our Last Morning Before Tetiaroa)

Our 19-month-old went into the water and came up in the middle of a school of fish. We're a family of four - Dad (James), Mum, Chelsea (4) and Maverick (19 months) - living aboard Leo Nui, our Leopard 48 catamaran, in French Polynesia. This was our last morning at Hana Iti, on Huahine, before an eighteen-hour passage to Tetiaroa, and Mum finally got us to the coral garden she had been trying to get us to for weeks: "I've been trying to get us here for weeks, but we're here now." What's in it: The dinghy ride out over water so flat and clear you can see every coral head from the bow Chelsea sliding off the dinghy tube into the lagoon, and Maverick going in after her The fish arrive: a huge school of butterflyfish all around Dad and Maverick - "Whoa, so many fish" An underwater stretch with Chelsea diving down to the coral, swimming with Mum in a school of sergeant majors, and finning along the reef with Dad Back on the tube with a fish ID card, feet in the water, while the fish come right up to the kids' toes Chelsea popping up to tell Mum she has found what she calls the coral path One last go on the rope swing with Dad, then back to the boat to get ready for the overnight passage Chapters: 00:00 Glass-calm water and a coral garden 01:11 In we go 01:34 Surrounded by fish 02:39 Under the surface 03:56 Fish ID and the coral path 04:27 The rope swing, then off we go The passage itself, and what we heard when we got to Tetiaroa, is in our Tetiaroa whales film. Filmed at Hana Iti, Huahine, French Polynesia. Music: "Sleepy Cat" by Alejandro Magaña (Mixkit). 'Echoes Of Home' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au Where is the best snorkel you have done with little ones - somewhere shallow and calm enough that a toddler can float over the coral? We are always collecting spots. #huahine #snorkeling #butterflyfish #coralReef #boatKids #sailingWithKids #familySailing #catamaranLife #leopard48 #liveaboardSailing #sailingFrenchPolynesia #frenchPolynesia #societyIslands #boatLife