Holy WOW! Today was the best day ever! We went to snorkel EARLY in the morning at Watermelon Cay, a small island just off the coast. From there we snorkeled out around the back side of Watermelon Cay and back around to the front side and then over to the beach again. We saw tons, I mean TONS of starfish. We saw a bunch of sting rays, and of course your typical sergeant majors, parrot fish, angelfish, and those tiny little silvery ones that are right near the top.
Once back on shore, we started walking back toward Annaberg but stopped for a bit to relax on a small sandy area of the mostly rocky and pebbly beach. People had told us that they’d seen sea turtles near Watermelon Cay, but we didn’t see any while we were out there. I was a little disappointed, but I could have sworn that on our walk along the trail over to the end of the bay I saw something pop it’s head up out of the water just ahead of this little sandy beach area. So I secretly wanted to camp out there for a little while to see if I could spot something again.
Sure enough, after only a few minutes, I could see a little head popping out of the water with a dark round splotch of a body underneath. “SEA TURTLE!!!” I shouted pointing at the little spot. “Did you see it?” Edgie helped me scramble into my snorkel equipment, and I was out in the water in a flash. I wanted to see if I could find it and stay with it until Edgie could make it out. I found him only 10 or 20 feet out just hanging out on the ocean floor grazing on seaweed. I poked my head up, spit out my snorkel and yelled for Edgie, “He’s right here!!! Hurry up!”
Then Edgie was there in a flash (we’re both pretty flashy). I can’t believe what a beautiful creature it is. It let us get really close, so close that at one point I could have reached out and touched it. It couldn’t have been more than two feet below me. When it was on the bottom it was a little further, but it swam right up underneath me. We actually saw two different sea turtles. One of them was pretty big and absolutely majestic! It’s just such a beautiful creature.
After our encounter, I was just ecstatic! It was the one thing I was looking forward to doing since the moment I heard someone say that they’d seen turtles, and it was even more incredible than I’d imagined. The only bad thing is that our camera battery had died while we were out around Watermelon Cay so we couldn’t get any pictures of the sea turtles. I made Edmundo promise we could come back tomorrow.
We were pretty hungry by the time we left, so we went to the Donkey Diner for another hearty breakfast. When our adrenaline rush had finally passed we went home for a shower and a nap. Edmundo made us a yummy rice and tuna late lunch. And for dinner we had no real plans, but went to the store to get some more root beer. While there we heard Patty the store manager recommending a restaurant bar called Skinny Legs as her favorite place on the island. So we decided that we might as well check it out.
Oh man, it was great. We really lucked out because tonight there was a live band, an old hippie trio playing bluegrass/folk type music. The band was SO good, and it was cool for Edmundo to see a very classically American live band. We got burger, chilli, and chips and locally brewed Virgin Island pale ale called Summer Breeze… delicious! And now we’re ready for bed after a dream come true kind of day. Don’t ya just love those!?
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Dia 10-
De adelante para atrás, léase en el tiempo. Fuimos a Skinny Legs, hamburguesas que en esta isla es un lujo, cerveza, que también lo es y una banda que tocaba guitarra, contrabajo, una como mandolina y harmónica, algo así como blues. Muy bueno.
Por la mañana el arrecife en Watermelon que fue imponente, vimos rayas muy grandes, se sentía la inmensidad del océano cuando fuimos alrededor del cayo y de regreso en la playa Abra vio una tortuga que salía a tomar aire, y saltamos al mar, fue increíble, que buen día!!!
This goes from end to beginning of our day. We went to Skinny Legs, hamburgers which in this island are a luxury, beer, which also is, and a band that played guitar, double bass, something like a mandolin, and harmonica, something like the blues. Very good.
In the morning, the reef in Watermelon Bay which was impressive, we saw huge stingrays, you could feel the immenseness of the ocean when we swam around the Cay, and on the way back, on the beach, Abra spotted a turtle that came up for air, and we jumped into the sea, it was incredible. What a great day!!!
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