Thursday, July 31, 2008

The Turtle Whisperer

This morning we headed up to West Bay to take Russ and Gail snorkeling at Cemetery Beach. The water close to shore was very murky but after we got about 50 yards out it really cleared up. As we headed out to the reef another green turtle swam under and around us the third we have seen in two days. Gail told us that they hear her calling them and want to come see her to say hello. Gail is popular with turtles since she raises their cousins back in Texas with her classes. From now on we are calling her the turtle whisperer. We found a new part of the reef out from cemetery beach that we hadn't seen with Stephanie and an area with literally hundreds of fish congregating around including a smooth trunk fish, a juvenile French Angel fish and what had to be 20 or 30 species with huge schools of their young. After an hour or so in the water we headed up to Hell so Russ and Gail could see the tourist trap. Tomorrow morning they are doing the sand bar trip to see the sting rays while we are at work and then tomorrow night we are doing Yoshi's sushi. Saturday is the Cayman movie experience with the old theatre and the Dark Knight.