sharks!

Highlights:

One day we were snorkeling close to the boat.  There was this cute little reef.  It was about a 12 foot circle of coral and teaming with fishes of all kinds, the adorable lion fish, bright blue fish, yellow fish, and many others… we were just looking down when I saw a big (well big to me – about 6 foot long, blackish) Shark! Ben had his back to the shark coming up behind him.  I pulled my head up and said, “Ben a shark behind you!” he turned and sure-enough! The shark went under him then me… then he circled out and Ben swam parellel to the shark about 7 feet above the shark! Silly guy.  Then the shark left only to come back again but this time Ben had dove down… all of a sudden Ben looked left and there was the shark heading for him. (luckily I did not see the beginning I only saw..) then Ben looked startled and the shark was startled too and the shark turned and swam away very fast. All I saw was a shark swimming away very fast.

We tried to look up this kind of shark but could not find him.  So here are 2 pictures of the sharks we have seen.  We had 3 sharks, that we did identify as Nurse Sharks, they were sucking on our hull.  It’s a little eerie to swim to the boat knowing and seeing sharks sucking on the bottom BUT we know that nurse sharks only suck, plus they are very cute and small only getting average up to 3 feet.

Then we were swimming at a different place and there was a stingray. This was quite big from our standards.  Next to her was a cute baby stingray swimming around in a circle near mommy.  Also swimming with the baby was a fish about 1 foot long swimming in complete synchronization just above the baby, maybe above about 2 inches.  The baby ended back at mommy’s side, gave her a kiss, then swam a few feet away and hunkered down into the sand.  All amazing!

We had a very relaxing and precious time with Connie, Josh and Victoria. We are so blessed with the friends and family we have! Thank you for being apart of it!

I now know how to blog on the computer and send through my iphone so hopefully I’ll get better at blogging. 

Ben and I will be leaving for Georgetown either tonight or tomorrow.  I’m not sure if I will find towers on the way to send the blogs.. we’ll see…This morning we got hit with many winds and a front coming through. Plus I needed to get a few things done at work.  We have not gone grocery shopping yet to get supplies for our guests coming to GT. We are going to pack up the boat again. 

Till then all smiles here

Pam and Ben