Day 163, Year 10: Fish, Rocks, and Key Lime Pie
Date: Sunday, March 22, 2015
Weather: Once Again Sunny and Beautiful with Very Little Wind
Location: Anchored in the N Anchorage, Warderwick Wells in the Park
This was another snorkel ’til you drop day. The weather was once again perfect with clear skies, lots of sunshine, and very little wind to interfere with our long travels by dinghy to various snorkel sites. We started by taking the dinghy a little more than a mile north to Kelley’s Reef to snorkel along the side of the cay. Once the current got too fierce, we motored across to Brad’s Reef on Long Cay. The coral in this area has been severely damaged by storms, but we enjoyed the fish. So that’s the fish part of the day. It was 1.7 miles back to Windbird and time for lunch when we got there. After lunch we took off for an area at the southern tip of Warderwick Wells. Claire and I really wanted to see the stromatolites but seeing them was like looking at rounded, gray rocks in the water, hence the mention of rocks in the subject line. Mark and Kevin were making fun of us for traveling almost 2 miles to see them, but I assured them that they had now communed with the first evidence of life on earth and that they should be elated. It didn’t work. They were not elated, but they put up with us. Claire and I snorkeled for a long time while Mark and Kevin following in the dinghy. On the way back to Windbird we stopped for a hike on the island to see some of the Loyalist ruins. This island is solid limestone and eeking out a life here must not have been easy. We made one more stop to do one last snorkel near Emerald Rock. There are dinghy moorings near the coral heads and Mark and Claire did this stint while Kevin and I manned the dinghy. With the strong currents here, it is safest if at least one person stays in the dinghy to pick the others up or if one person pulls the dinghy along. We returned to Windbird and all of us were exhausted. But Kevin still had enough energy to put together a Thai red curry with pork, cauliflower, red pepper, onion, carrot, and ginger. In between snorkels today, I made a key lime pie and we had that for dessert. Thus, the mention of key lime pie in tonight’s log subject line.
Tomorrow we return to the anchorage at Big Majors near Staniel Cay. Kevin and Claire fly out on Tuesday morning and then the adventure continues. And before ending, I must mention that I was a happy Oma this morning. I finally got the internet to work long enough to allow us to have a short Skype video call with Heather and boys so we could wish Ollie a happy birthday. Good weather, good friends, snorkeling and land adventures, and contact with family. Once again, life is good.
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