Well, we had a most memorable first full day here on this amazing island! First we explored the beach at our condo, which had great snorkeling right off the beach! It also has cool little tiki shade huts, including several with swings and hammocks.
This is our condo with pool and beach in the photo, too.
In the afternoon, we took a boat tour out to Stingray City Sandbar as well as 2 other popular snorkel sites along the way. It was really amazing!
On Captain Marvin's tour
Ben trying to touch the spray off the side of the boat!
Once we arrived at the sandbar after about 30 minutes, there were immediately a dozen or so stingrays right there in the shallow water, ready to be touched and fed. They would glide past you and brush up against your legs frequently.. They are very soft and gently, though.
Every passenger got a chance to hold and kiss a ray! Of everyone on our boat, Ben got to go first!
Then there was also the opportunity to feed them little pieces of squid. You had to hold it in closed fist sticking up like an ice cream cone and hold it under water, since their mouths are on their underside. When they approached you, there was really intense suction to pull it out of your grip ... Daryl's facial expression in this photo really sums it up well!
Yikes!
Someone found this cool conch (it was alive!) just sitting there right where we were standing!
The snorkeling at the 2 other sites was really great, too. Daryl got a lot of underwater video footage on the little Contour camcorder he bought. We say a lot of beautiful tropical fish including angels, barracuda, seargent majors, and many more I can't name right now!
parrot fish
angelfish
cowfish
What a great day, the kids are having a blast and I am very proud to say so far nobody has a sunburn!
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