CPTN&CREW DAY 3
Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 8:40 pm
Up way to early again, get my java brewing, watch a couple of Pearlys do there thing cleaning up all the dead bugs on the deck. They would do this every morning at the crack of dawn. Everyone rolls out an hour or two later. I’m livin on the wild side this morning I break the bacon and egg tradition and eat my FREE blackened Mahi Mahi.
Wow talk about delish I could have eaten another one.
Were feeling lazy and really don’t want to pack anything for the beach so we decide close and easy Hawksnest again. Funny we seem to hit Hawknest more than any other beach because it’s just so darn convenient. Didn’t even bother with our favorite spot just kept heading right, where the beach is really wide to get as far away from the tree line as we could. Sun was out in full force and a slight breeze, nothing like Cinnamon but enough to help with those pesky skeeters. Everyone does the deet for the skeets but me as I’m going to do some serious snorkeling today. The conditions are near perfect on the center reef.
I head for the middle reef and this time I got the camera with me. Start to cut right down the center in a couple feet of water. I love when the conditions are right and you can do this. I get a little to brave and go stupid shallow when a small wake comes in and makes me scrape against an elkhorn right under my man boob. Ouch! Damn they are sharp! Swear its gotta be bleeding bad the way it stings but I see no blood. Feel under my man boob and it is all slippery, they must give off some kind of mucous. Lesson learned don’t go that shallow for your safety as well as the coral. I’m happy to say the elkhorn appeared to get the best of me, as he appeared unharmed. I’m going up the left side where the reef juts up from the sand and wow a huge stingray foraging in the sand barjack in tow. This guy was in four feet of water and its tail would have easily came out of the water if he flung it up. Already injured I gave him a little breathing room we didn’t need to have a Steve Erwin event on our vacation. Hung with him for five minutes while he searched for breakfast, he finally got tired of his uninvited dining guest and swam off. You know what is so cool about snorkeling? You can get so close to nature and actually be part of their world and not seem to bother them much at all, you’re just like a big ole fish to them.
Well that was really cool but it sure didn’t prepare me for what was about to happen next.
I enter a little cove in the coral were it juts up from the sand and I’m checking it out closely. I love this little spot as it allows me to look straight ahead instead of down so it’s more like diving neat all the little things ya see when ya look close and you can get really really close up. I’m checking out the right then turn left Holy Crapoly Batman! I think I just fed the fish some Poo Poo and my heart went into an arrhythmia. Three feet from me in four feet of water is a 5 ft shark. Now it takes me all a few second to realize it was just a nurse shark but wow did the adrenaline coarse threw my veins for those few seconds. Once composed I just hung with him for a while watching his gills go in and out. Could have petted him but I knew better, he never moved at all, must of felt he could take me if I tried anything stupid. Pics turned out terrible but he was crystal clear through my mask.
Okey Dokey crank on the tunes slather on the deet and lets get the party started boys and girls. We hang at the pool and catch some tasty rays. Mr Suns UV rays are out in full force; think it helped with the skeeters. We ate drank and became merrier as the day rolled by. Andy and I got our groove on to some funk music. Our girls just don’t know how lucky they are to have hubbys that can dance this darn good. We got Jiggy with it and played that funky music till we died or maybe it was till we just passed out. As Ole Mr. Sun got low in the sky Teresa went in and whipped up some killer rigatoni that could have been served at Café Roma no problem, it really was that good.
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Full to the gills we decide to put the 42-inch lcd to work and watch a movie. This place had at least a hundred dvd’s to choose from. Can’t remember what movie we watched but Haley Berry was in it (SHWING) I fell asleep half way threw it and got kicked out cause I was snoring up a storm. Up to the loft and another great day in the books. I’m guessing 8 o’clock tops, hey be easy on me I’ve been up since five
Wow talk about delish I could have eaten another one.
Were feeling lazy and really don’t want to pack anything for the beach so we decide close and easy Hawksnest again. Funny we seem to hit Hawknest more than any other beach because it’s just so darn convenient. Didn’t even bother with our favorite spot just kept heading right, where the beach is really wide to get as far away from the tree line as we could. Sun was out in full force and a slight breeze, nothing like Cinnamon but enough to help with those pesky skeeters. Everyone does the deet for the skeets but me as I’m going to do some serious snorkeling today. The conditions are near perfect on the center reef.
I head for the middle reef and this time I got the camera with me. Start to cut right down the center in a couple feet of water. I love when the conditions are right and you can do this. I get a little to brave and go stupid shallow when a small wake comes in and makes me scrape against an elkhorn right under my man boob. Ouch! Damn they are sharp! Swear its gotta be bleeding bad the way it stings but I see no blood. Feel under my man boob and it is all slippery, they must give off some kind of mucous. Lesson learned don’t go that shallow for your safety as well as the coral. I’m happy to say the elkhorn appeared to get the best of me, as he appeared unharmed. I’m going up the left side where the reef juts up from the sand and wow a huge stingray foraging in the sand barjack in tow. This guy was in four feet of water and its tail would have easily came out of the water if he flung it up. Already injured I gave him a little breathing room we didn’t need to have a Steve Erwin event on our vacation. Hung with him for five minutes while he searched for breakfast, he finally got tired of his uninvited dining guest and swam off. You know what is so cool about snorkeling? You can get so close to nature and actually be part of their world and not seem to bother them much at all, you’re just like a big ole fish to them.
Well that was really cool but it sure didn’t prepare me for what was about to happen next.
I enter a little cove in the coral were it juts up from the sand and I’m checking it out closely. I love this little spot as it allows me to look straight ahead instead of down so it’s more like diving neat all the little things ya see when ya look close and you can get really really close up. I’m checking out the right then turn left Holy Crapoly Batman! I think I just fed the fish some Poo Poo and my heart went into an arrhythmia. Three feet from me in four feet of water is a 5 ft shark. Now it takes me all a few second to realize it was just a nurse shark but wow did the adrenaline coarse threw my veins for those few seconds. Once composed I just hung with him for a while watching his gills go in and out. Could have petted him but I knew better, he never moved at all, must of felt he could take me if I tried anything stupid. Pics turned out terrible but he was crystal clear through my mask.
Okey Dokey crank on the tunes slather on the deet and lets get the party started boys and girls. We hang at the pool and catch some tasty rays. Mr Suns UV rays are out in full force; think it helped with the skeeters. We ate drank and became merrier as the day rolled by. Andy and I got our groove on to some funk music. Our girls just don’t know how lucky they are to have hubbys that can dance this darn good. We got Jiggy with it and played that funky music till we died or maybe it was till we just passed out. As Ole Mr. Sun got low in the sky Teresa went in and whipped up some killer rigatoni that could have been served at Café Roma no problem, it really was that good.
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Full to the gills we decide to put the 42-inch lcd to work and watch a movie. This place had at least a hundred dvd’s to choose from. Can’t remember what movie we watched but Haley Berry was in it (SHWING) I fell asleep half way threw it and got kicked out cause I was snoring up a storm. Up to the loft and another great day in the books. I’m guessing 8 o’clock tops, hey be easy on me I’ve been up since five
As he was getting his grove on Teresa pulled his shorts to his ankles. Had to cut that part off at the end. It ain't normal