Day 15: Enjoying the Sea Shore Life

Day 15: Enjoying the Sea Shore Life

Wednesday March 16, 2016

I went to sleep last night at 7:30, with the help of a few  beers (I didn’t want to spend $2.15 for a can of soda when a beer cost $2.50).  I woke up at 8:30 AM.  I was exhausted from our day before.  Slowly I got up and got breakfast, made arrangements for my ride back (paying big bucks again, but I’m taking pictures of the road sides all the way).  I’m rationalizing, but I’m going to write the expenses of these 4 days as the “chance of a lifetime” and just let it go (yeah, right, me let it go lol).  Unfortunately, the family who befriended me and the couple who showed me how to snorkel both left this morning.  Today I take their lessons to the sea.

I had lunch at 12 and got snorkel gear at 1:00 and was in the water for 45 minutes.  Some cool things, including lots of photographs that can be cropped into “display” pictures….mostly coral groupings but some of zebra fish, pipe fish, foot-long fish, tetras (or so they look like aquarium fish), and some pretty blue fish.

I’m getting picky…an OK arrangement but will need photoshop to brighten and crop it.

Better lighting…a nice arrangement….maybe good enough for the County Fair? lol

I love fish, and I think this photo can be cropped and Photoshopped (contrast the fish and the bottom…not like in nature lol) keeping the bottom left and perhaps turn out okay.

NO SEAHORSES.  Upon my return I asked the person tending the dive office about sea horses.  He said they were hard to spot but they would be in the close area, not way out where the turtles are.  I’m going out again, after a nap, and “display” photos of fish, sea horses, and turtles are my goal.

Result: no sea horses.  I spent an hour in the water, really searching hard.  I found a very small puffer fish, partially hidden by a stick, photo needs a huge cropping, so not here yet.

You can name this coral.  I am not going to touch it, literally or figuratively.

I will name this one:  The Sock Puppet Coral

I think I got a picture of a baby sea snake?  Why would a water snake lay on a rock?

And then, a fish that scared the hell out of me.  It was about a foot long and over a pound……I didn’t want to get too close in case it was a “colorful puffer fish”.

I’m leaving tomorrow at 12:00 because that is check-out time.  I can pack in the morning and get in two short snorkels or one long snorkel in the morning.  The word of the day is “Sea Horse”.   I must, must I say, get a picture of a sea horse.  Neigh (pun), a large sea horse…..Neigh (pun again), lots of large sea horses.