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| Hooded Oriole |
The past few days have settled into a nice routine. We do two dives in the morning and, although a third dive is scheduled, take the afternoon off to nap, read, review photos and video, and go for a walk to search out birds and other wildlife. Of course, the palapa bar for a drink and socializing before supper is mandatory!
Of the four people who arrived on Wednesday, two are divers but one is taking his rescue diver course, so it’s been interesting seeing and learning about what is required. It looks exhausting! And you definitely need to be a strong swimmer (which I’m not).
The dives have continued to be very good with healthy reef and lots of underwater life. More spotted eagle rays, sting rays and very large green moray eels, in addition to some small things such as jawfish and sailfin blennies have been fun to see.
Our divemaster, Cardinal, always takes a spear with him and catches lionfish (an invasive species that tends to wipe out local species) so the non-vegetarians have had lots of fish fingers as the happy hour appetizer. The chef has been amazing at providing delicious vegetarian meals for us. We are eating very well!!!
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| I mostly take video under water but the odd photo turns out ok. |
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| I like the bright yellow "feathers" (for lack of a better term.) |
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| In addition to diving, one of the other guests was into fishing. Catch and release but he was pretty happy about it. |
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| On the other end of the island is an abandoned research station that lost their funding. |
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| Just the foundations of some of the buildings remain. |
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| Coconuts |
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| There are lots of great tailed grackles on the island. |
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| Cat tails |
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| Cormorant |
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| Showing off his wing span |
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| The catch of the day |
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| The crocodile lives in the lagoon west of the island but comes around for the cast offs from fish cleaning. |
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| A spiky tail |
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| The resident little blue heron |
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| Frigate bird |
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| Little blue heron in flight |
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| Pelican |
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