Snorkeling with Turtles

The Gili's are supposed to have amazing snorkeling, so we thought we would give it a try. We wandered out of our hotel and up to a snorkel shack a few meters up (and yes, they have shacks on the beach solely dedicated to the pursuit of snorkeling). We rented our two masks/fins for $6.00 for the whole day- we're not sure if this was a good deal or not, but we took it anyways.  Snorkeling proved to be harder than I ever thought! There is a wicked current that rips to the north so it made swimming up (the south) kind of like a treadmill, a whole lot of swimming with no progress. So we jumped out, walked up, and jumped back in to coast with the current back on down. While we were flying over reefs we saw 5! turtles, which is awesome because I've seen a grand total of 0 turtles in the wild (Brian's seen a bit more than that). Anyways, these were good sized turtles and we happened to miss them in each photo, so enjoy the photos of the caged baby turtles below (they are saved as eggs and then raised for the first year in little tanks before being released back into the wild)!