Caribbean Note III

We're at the end of our third week and have had another encounter with Dolphins swimming up close in fifteen feet of water at the site Sweet Dreams. We were alerted to their approach by a lady who had spotted them swimming south along the shoreline and drove like mad to get ahead of them and into the water in order to be able to swim with them.

The good old Family Luck is holding! We geared up quickly and were waiting on the bottom when the herd passed by. The lady who warned us of their approach was snorkeling on the surface and counted thirty eight this time. We were below but very near (within twenty feet) as they passed. So we've had a once in a lifetime experience twice in two weeks!

We also found and captured another Lionfish. This time we were at the east coast site Baby Beach in about eighty five feet when I spotted a big Green Moray and right beside him a Lionfish. I deployed my surface marker bouy and we returned to the get-in where I waited in the water while Berit retrieved the net and handed it off to me. I returned to the spot and netted the fish and then back again to the beach where Berit took the net and so the score is now two for two.

We've been seeing our friends for lunch and have had some pretty good home cooked meals. Right now they are in the kitchen working together on a local specialty and later today we will have Roberts Ox-Tail Stew.

I'm taking advantage of this rare occurrence where our computer is working to get this note out to you because we're not sure if we'll be able to get back on. Ever since Mexico the computer is getting more and more problematic (the video card is failing) and we will get it repaired when we come home so if the notes stop coming you'll know why.