Another leisurely morning; coffee, then breakfast, a lot of fun visiting on our dock and balcony. Push off was again 9 AM and we were headed to Bird Island. An area where special sea birds nest once a year, otherwise they are out to sea. We didn’t dock, no one is allowed to walk on the island during nesting season, so we motored around it a couple of times. We also boated by “Turtle Beach”, an area that the sea turtles nest, again we didn’t land, it was very rough sea near by and we were nicely out in a spot that was only effected by large swells, no waves.
Our first stop was a beach for lunch, it took us quiet awhile to do our in boat sight seeing. The beach was clean and pretty, I even found a fantastic shell very close to the boat, and that started a search by a couple of us to find some more.
Then a lunch of fruit salad and a club soda. I also took a walk along the beach for a while and visited another little shack with trinkets for sale, got myself a keychain. We were then off to snorkel some more, 4 spots, 1st stop, Starfish Beach. It was really cool, and we got to turn a Starfish over on it’s back and watched it turn itself over. Another spot was a mangrove, it was fascinating. Mangroves are the nurseries for all the fish, schools of tiny baby fish, I loved it. It was also really cool to see all the roots for the trees, neat to see how they grow. Then off to a couple corral reefs, that were full of color and fish, but still awfully small fish. I did get to see some cool jelly fish, a Green Murey Eel, a bunch of Parrot Fish, more Star Fish and a Spotted Ray, gorgeous!
Snorkeling took up the rest of the day and we made our way back to hotel, we were scheduled to have a farewell dinner for everyone at 7 pm, so we had some time to clean up and chill out. I had bought a bottle of white wine at a grocery store stop that we made in Vulcan, so we decided it was a white wine night. Dinner was a Red Snapper, coconut rice with beans, veggies and delicious orange/pineapple juice, delicious again!!!
After dinner, I sat in the hammock for hours, listening to my ipod, Benedictine Monks, Chants, while I was watching the moon rise in the sky. My mini computer decided that it didn’t want to turn on for me, I was very concerned, but what could I do? So I left it in my room, in it’s case, with a couple silica packets and hoped it was just the humidity bothering it; it’s working now, only took a one day break. Then off to bed late, almost feel asleep in the hammock, Tranquillo!
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