It's been another busy week here at Lola's Corner, what with all the horseback riding on the beach, SCUBA diving, snorkeling, running dogs, and - oh, yeah - running our little bar.
I've been SCUBA diving two or three mornings a week with Darryl (my dive instructor) and Trevor Young (owner of Villa Tropical) and anybody else who shows up. We meet at 7:00 am and see where it's best to go, usually to the outer reef right off Shacks Beach. I've written before about how great snorkeling is on the outer reef. Diving there is just amazing. In the last week we've seen three full-grown nurse sharks and a baby nurse shark, a 5 or 6 foot eagle ray, a big barracuda, grey angelfish, queen angelfish, French angelfish, amazing coral (including a pillar coral that looks like a sandcastle perched on the edge of a mountain of coral) Sorry I don't have pictures of any of this to post (yet). Canon and I are still having discussions about leaking housings and flooded cameras. As soon as that is resolved, look out!
It's been a lot like January here the past few days. The winds are pushing pretty big (for this time of year) waves. We also have those tropical late afternoon rains. Between the wind and the rain, the ocean is pretty churned up and cloudy. Visibility on the dive yesterday morning was okay, not great but not terrible. By the time Elaine and I went snorkeling late yesterday afternoon, it was terrible. Still, we saw three reef squid, a good size snapper, and a cool porcupine fish. Not a bad day all in all.
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