Oh man, today was so incredible. I’m getting a little worked up tonight because we leave for Puerto Rico in the morning. Or at least we HOPE we leave for Puerto Rico in the morning. We’ve got a big problem with making our flight on time. But never mind that, today was awesome.
We woke up early again to go snorkeling so that I could finally get my photo of the sea turtle. And boy did I ever! I got an incredible picture! I had to go through a whole camera snafu and miss it the first time, but after sorting the camera problem out on the beach, I went back out, found another turtle and got a killer shot. I had to wait around forever for this one to come to the surface, but he finally did.
Then Edmundo took over the camera and got some great shots of me with the turtle! And you can’t believe this, but I read yesterday in National Geographic that it is OK to touch the turtle on the shell, and this turtle in particular really liked me at lot. He swam right up next to me, so finally I just reached out and petted his shell! WOW! Then he started bobbing up and down, I think he wanted me to clean his shell for him. They have discovered recently through “Crittercam” (another thing I read about yesterday) that Green Sea Turtles use sea sponges to clean their shells; they actually rub up against them. Plus, they often have sucker fish leached on to clean off all the algae. So you may have imagined my friends’ shell being slimy and gross, but it wasn’t the case at all. In fact he was nice and smooth. It was the coolest experience ever!
Also Edmundo got to see lots more stingrays (which were his favorite creatures from yesterday) although he didn’t reach out and touch any of those, thank goodness! But we did see that one of the stingrays actually had a travelling companion… another kind of fish swam just above him everywhere he went. It was so funny! Edgie got cool photos of that too.
Most of the rest of the day we were just getting everything ready to leave in the morning. But tonight we went to BBQ night at Donkey Diner, “Kickass food.” We got brisket that was smoked for 21 hours and smothered in BBQ sauce *yum* and coffee-wings smoked with Kahlua. Both our plates came with cornbread and “ranch style steak and beans” (steak chunks, corn, black beans, and kidney beans). They also threw in an extra crab and shrimp chowder that was quite possibly the best chowder I’ve ever eaten. Anyway, it was an amazing way to say good-bye to St. John and hello to San Juan!
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Dia 11-
Dia 11-
Hoy Abra me apuro para ir de nuevo a la bahía y tomar fotos de las tortugas, ya que ayer nos quedamos sin baterías y no pudimos tomar ninguna. Y bueno al llegar al lugar lo primero que vimos fue a dos tortugas saliendo a respirar, Abra y yo saltamos al agua y nadamos con las tortugas, Abra tomo muchas fotos y una de ellas es increíble, la tortuga salto a respirar y el sol la ilumino, Abra tomo la mejor foto del viaje.
Today Abra hurried me up to go to the bay again and take photos of the turtles, since yesterday we were left without batteries and couldn’t take a single photo. And well the first thing that we saw when we arrived were two turtles coming up to breathe, Abra and I jumped into the water and swam with the turtles, Abra took a lot of photos and one of them is incredible, the turtle came up for breath and the sun illuminated it, Abra took the best picture of the trip.
Today Abra hurried me up to go to the bay again and take photos of the turtles, since yesterday we were left without batteries and couldn’t take a single photo. And well the first thing that we saw when we arrived were two turtles coming up to breathe, Abra and I jumped into the water and swam with the turtles, Abra took a lot of photos and one of them is incredible, the turtle came up for breath and the sun illuminated it, Abra took the best picture of the trip.
I LOVE your turtle photo, Abra. And what a great storyteller you are!
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