First, a forgotten tidbit. While walking the beach some time back, Susie found a tiny bit of something that looked like a little plant/flower. She’d found a green one of these earlier in our trip but without the stem. This one she carefully guarded during the rest of our explorations that day by tucking it into a compartment in the dinghy. And then she forgot it. Weeks – and many dinghy rides – later, she remembered the little “flower” and (hopefully) opened the compartment to retrieve it.
Tada! Susie’s forgotten treasure.
A calcified single cup of Acetabularia – Mermaids Wine Glass, which is actually an algae!
Now back to the weekend: to stage for a Sunday crossing to Cat Island, we moved from Big Majors to Galliot Cay Saturday morning. We’d read of a good area to snorkel nearby, so we grabbed the gear and headed out. What a spot! Just off a small island, there is this smallish (50 yards square) area of the most beautiful stuff.
First things first. Susie snagged the underwater camera to get a shot of our “Jacques” (Todd), who loves being in the water and swims like a fish!
Once the camera was returned, he happily headed off to capture images of the large reef while the rest of us continued exploring.
Sprinkled in were some really beautiful corals. What’s still amazing to fathom is that they are living, growing organisms, not rocks…
He captured so many beautiful fish and other critters………
We also found more Christmas Tree Worms:
After snorkeling until we were pruney, we headed to a nearby island to explore and dry out.
Not much was found on the beach, but in the shallows, our group still found interesting things!
Sufficiently dried out, we went home to shower the salt away.
I mean, seriously, check out that goofy snorkel hair!
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