When we arrived yesterday we were given the days and times for our snorkel tour and sunset tour. Happy to be getting our snorkel tour in this morning as the weather is really iffy all week. Oh well, lots of books to be read. We convinced Nancy to come along on our snorkel tour and just stay on the boat, at least it will be a change of scenery for her as she does not snorkel. The rest of us will be spending lots and lots of time in the water.
There is a set breakfast every morning, which turns out to be very good. Always eggs are involved, we will have our fill of eggs after this week.
At 9:00AM we are off on our snorkel tour (or maybe it was 9:30, we were given a couple of different times) The snorkel tour consists of 2 stops. We all have our own snorkel gear so we are off pretty quickly. Orlando is coming along with us in the water, Edison is our captain. I guess we were supposed to be following Orlando like a tour, poor Orlando didn't have a chance. We are all off going our own ways. This first stop had lots of starfish, only one color, and we have seen these before with Mom on one of our trips. We spent a little over an hour at the first stop. Lots of coral and fish as well. Great to be in the water again. Snacks of fruit when we get back on board.
Our next stop is more shallow coral. Edison says we must follow Orlando this time. Orlando does not do much except swim in front of us, he really doesn't point out anything except a lobster at one point. We also had to cross a deep channel where boat could come thru. He really wasn't needed for us as we are all great swimmers. I guess it was a nice break for him away from the hotel. This stop we are in the water again for over an hour. After this stop we have guacamole, chips and salsa along with beer and rum punch. A nice boat ride back to Puerta Azul. It was an absolutely beautiful morning, a great way to start our holiday. So many snacks on board that we did not need any lunch today.
Get cleaned up and we are off to happy hour. Every day from 4-6 it is happy hour, so if we want a little fancier drinks than what we are having back at our cottage happy hour it is. Today we tried out Tequila Sunrise, which I have not had in years, turns out this will be my drink of choice for happy hour.
Supper at Puerta Azul again tonight. They ask us to order in the afternoon and then say what time we want to eat and the meals are delivered pretty much right after we sit down. A great system for us.
Drinks and games, again, back at our place after supper.
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| NB feels like -19c Roatan feels like 35c, rather be here! |
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| Breakfast this morning, cantaloupe and watermelon for fruit, will we ever see this fruit again lol |
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| New dock being built, we said we would help to get them finished sooner. We loved spending time out here last time, away from the bugs that really bother Joey |
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| Off on our snorkel tour |
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| Hold on to your hats! |
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| Exiting the Mangrove |
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| Our snorkel tour boat, Nancy ready to help us out! |
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| The water is super clear and bright green where there are sandy bottoms |
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| Lots of starfish, West Indian or Red Cushion sea star |
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| bluestriped grunt fish swimming near a soft coral |
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| grooved brain coral |
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| Wendy in her happy place |
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| mustard hill coral |
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| Peacock flounder |
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| foureye butterflyfish |
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| bluehead wrasse |
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| toplight parrotfish |
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| ocean surgeonfish they got from this colour to Blue depending on the light and where they are |
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| Tube coral |
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| Very happy sisters |
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| Ron diving to see a conch shell |
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| 2 beautiful queen angelfish. The most colourful species of Angelfish in the Caribbean |
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| Choices from cooler |
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| Ron being funny |
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| Shipwreck from 1912, we chose not to snorkel here |
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| Getting ready for our second snorkel stop |
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| Ray in deep water |
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| Orlando swam through, hard pass from the rest of us |
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| Very shallow coral, easy to see lots of amazing things including a school of Blue Tang |
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| spotted orange hermit crab |
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| Our first Caribbean spiny lobster spotting, no claws like home |
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| a smooth trunkfish, a species of boxfish |
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| Ron spotted this tiny ell |
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| spotted trunkfish |
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| A larger moray eel but in deep water, no closeups |
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| Snacks at the end of our second snorkel stop, plenty for us to call this lunch |
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| Chicken guiding us to reception/beach |
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| Happy Hour! |
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| Wendy's pasta |
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| Andre's steak, so good it was reordered later in the week |
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