We arrived to Beveridge Reef, just less than 300 miles from Palmerston Atoll, a couple days ago. Here are the bullet points:

- Coral reef with an expansive (2 mile x 2 mile) 10-30' deep lagoon inside, more than 120 miles from the nearest island.

- Reef is almost completely submerged at high tide, so that you can't see any land or reef around - looks like we're anchored in the middle of the ocean (well, we are, but you know what I mean...)

- At low tide, we're surrounded by just a hint of the dark reef rim topped by the white foamy spray of the surf crashing all around.

- Visibility is unbelievable, even by the new standards we've developed in these out-of-the-way places - maybe 200 feet or more?

- A humpback whale welcomed us on arrival, going down for a deep dive right in front of the boat.

- The blue colors of the water are so bright above the perfect untouched white sand; I don't think I've ever seen quite these colors anywhere else on earth.

- We are anchored in 8.5' at low tide, 11' at high tide.

- The snorkeling is my favorite yet. So many beautiful little fish we can see so well in the clear water.

- Snorkeled over a shipwreck yesterday, scattered pieces of a large fishing boat that are now inhabited by a variety of fish and marine creatures.

- Lagoon gets a bit rolly twice each day, when the tide is high, but is very calm at low tide. Rode out some 25 knot winds here that didn't have much effect.

- A friend on another boat was walking across a submerged part of the reef the other day. From a distance, it looked like he was walking on water.

- This is probably the most untouched place we've ever been. It should, maybe, be illegal for humans to visit someplace this perfect.

- This could potentially be the world's safest place in the event of a zombie apocalypse.

- Wow.