Day two - Sea Turtles!
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 8:58 pm
Having seen the big ray yesterday, my goal for today was sea turtles. With this in mind, we headed out to Maho. Got there nice and early, only the second car there. As soon as we got our stuff set down, we saw a ray swimming back and forth in the shallow right in front of us - that was cool. Then it must have been breakfast time for the tarpon and pelicans, because a feeding frenzy commenced right at the shoreline for about 10 minutes - cool. The water was a little colder than we would have liked, but we had our big girl panties on, so we dealt with it. After the obnoxious kids behind us got too annoying, we decided to start our snorkel. We were way down by the community building, so we took the long swim down to the right side. Just when it seemed like we weren't going to see much, there he was. My first sea turtle - awesome! I followed him around for awhile, then we headed over to the shoreline. Not a lot going on there, so we decided to head back. The trip back was amazing, 4 more turtles, 2 of whom I dove down and was able to swim close to. A very large ray who didn't seem very happy with me, so I decided to back off. And some starfish. All in all, it was a great day at Maho for us. By about 2 we had all the heat we could take for the day, so headed into Cruz Bay to buy fixins for dinner. Cooked back at the cabana, which was lovely, and set up a private charter for this weekend - yay!
