We had a fun day just tinkering on boat and exploring in the N Sound.  Shelling was off the charts, literally beaches covered in old conch and treasures! While snorkeling we found 100’s of legal sized conchs, absolutley incredible. I took photos of several of my favorites before setting them back down. At one point while snorkeling I thought I bumped into a tiger shark head on. Nope.. just me and Jim crash collisioning while snorkeling, I mean what are the chances of that!??

Saw the biggest cowfish of my life on our evening snorkel and of course did not have my camera, but she was at least 1.5 ft long and fat as a basketball in my underwater vision. She was so friendly and curious, I held my breath as long as I could looking at her with my mask literally about a foot separating my snorkel face from her fish face. Soon after the cowfish encounter I had a large ray befriend me while trying to swim all over my arm, usually they are easily spooked so this as well was absoutly incredible to experience! I don’t know if it was because we were snorkeling at dusk or we just encountered some subdued marine life, but its something I will never forget!

Earlier in the day while scouting the shore by dinghy, with the storm induced lack of vegetation I noticed a giant “cave” hole in the side of a cliff along the water. Of course I had to climb up and check it out!! SO COOL.  We felt like little kids exploring and playing all day.

Once getting back to the boat we showered and cooked and enjoyed the blustery evening. Dinner was fresh conch sauted in butter, onion, garlic, cloves and orange peel. Served over fresh squash and pasta with homemade butter/honey biscuits.

Soon after dinner we enjoyed our evening chat with Savannah. We shared very funny stories and some belly laughs. One of them being when Mom went to fix the trah bag in the shower that was filling with air from the wind coming through the hatch. Well it’s attached to the shower handle, so just as I entered it was enough pressure on the handle to turn on the shower and soak me!!!  I also sent her a photo of her last year’s summer crush that we saw. She’s going to kill me for writing this here. She said that was a tease sending her the photo but “Thank youuuuuuuu soooooo veryyyy much!!!!” hahahah I seriously love the sense of humor the 3 of us have a family. It’s a little whacked but I wouldn’t change it for the world. She’s still going to kill me for writing this.. haha

Sleep was on and off.  For one, this boat with a Texas flag the size of TEXAS moored just in front of us and their flag whipped and snapped all night long. WTH… We had a squall go through in the early am with a lot of rain which is fantastic for the islands, and thank goodness enough to rinse off most of the Sahara dust that our boat is covered in. It’s been thick to say the least. Not sure my sinus can handle much more.

Having a blast. WX is fair next day or so with tropical storm Beryle passing S of us. Thank goodness she is weakening but man it’s WAY too early to be thinking of storms right now. Tis the season…

H