reefgirl64 8 years ago.looks like I’ll be touching up all my underwater pics. Here’s the one I did…
Again thanks for suggesting something I would not have thought of on my own!
Day 6
Here are a few of the flowers and pretty views around the condo.
My husband and I went snorkeling in front of the condo today. We probably would have spent all week in and around our horseshoe, but there was a note in the condo. They suggested going 100 yards out. It was great!
This is a new one for us. I think it?s a Sand Diver/Lizardfish
Spotfin butterflyfish
French Angelfish
We went to lunch at Eats/Legendz and went to Governor?s Beach for a short time. The food was excellent!! I think it was the favorite food of the group. The boys went back on kayak day.
That night we went fishing. It went very well. It was lots of fun. I?ll post details elsewhere.
Not really our fish, but they seemed to go here!
We came back and went snorkeling at the Marriott. I had the camera still set to try to take the sunset pics, so they are a bit messy. Now that we have two lights, it was hard to coordinate them and take pictures.
Porcupinefish
Yellow stingray
The small blue dot at the top of the urchin is an octopus.
I am happy to answer any questions. That’s why I put the report here! We were in Belize the first time we went night snorkeling. There was a guide with us, so that was helpful for the first time. It’s not any harder, it’s just different. I would say that there aren’t as many things to see, but there are new and different things to see. You just have to keep looking.
Here’s a picture of the horseshoe.
[align=center]There is a rock sticking out on the left side under the tree. It’s at about 1 or 2 o’clock from the lounge chair as you are looking toward the water. That’s where we got in all week. You can sit on the rock and put fins on if you want them on before you get in. I thought it was easiest to go in and out from the same spot. There were rocks and things on the entry, but I think it was the easiest point we found. Toward the middle of the horseshoe it can get a bit shallow and there are little spiny urchins tucked in everywhere. It can make you feel a bit intimidated. The entry we chose was pretty clear all the way into the water.
As for going in at night, I would absolutely go in the daytime at least once if not twice before trying it in the evening. We went after the boys went to bed. Usually 9 or so. It is colder, but there is a bit of adrenaline at night that will warm you right up. I would absolutely go with someone else. We used two 4C diving lights. I brought one with us and we bought one there. I think I paid around $25 online. It was a bit more on the island.
It is easy to just keep going when you are following your lights. I liked to look out of the water every once in a while to get my bearings. Sometimes I thought I was heading back in when I was really heading out to sea! My husband is a super-spotter. He was the one that saw the lobster. I tend to just put the light in front of me to make sure I’m OK. He likes to do some crazy madness that looks like a disco ball.
We never went to the Marriott during the day, but we did go at night. It is a much clearer entry. We didn’t go very far out, there was probably stuff we didn’t get to. We definitely played it safe there, but there were still things to see. It was at the end of a long day, so we drove down and back to this one.
Allison
PS. The lobster is usually on the side we entered on during the day. He’s tucked under a rock on the side that faces the ocean. Look for his very large antennae. There is another rock fairly close on the ocean side, so sometimes it’s hard to see him.
Day 7
We started the day at Governor?s. The group was not satisfied with the short trip of the previous day.
My lovely husband and the ever-present chubs and sergeant majors.
Banded butterflyfish
Queen triggerfish
Reef squid
Barracuda
Trunkfish
My hubby is very proud of this one he took. He likes that you can?t tell that this picture was taken underwater.
Next we went to the Turtle Farm. I posted about this in the Turtle Farm thread. We did the ?turtles only? option. It was $18 US for the adults and $9 for kids over two. The kids really loved it. I loved seeing them. When asked what turtles do, our two year old says, ?CHOMP. Eat it!? They really enjoyed seeing, holding, and feeding the turtles.
While we were feeding the turtles, my hat blew off. It went in with the turtles! They liked it. We found someone to fish it out, but they were on Cayman time. Several turtles had a go at it.
After visiting the turtles we ate lunch at Macabuca at Cracked Conch. This was my favorite location to eat.
We had a visitor while we ate. The two year old was the first to see it. He was so excited. Iguana is one of his new favorite words.
We really liked snorkeling here on our last visit, but we couldn?t fit it in this time. Guess we?ll just have to come back!
During naptime went into town to shop. We hit Pure Art and Cathy Church?s. When we returned we walked down to the Wreck of the Gamma. I was with some of our less adventurous snorkelers, so I didn?t get a chance to go all the way in. We saw the biggest parrotfish of the trip here. When I looked back at the pictures, I realized there were two of them. One was inside in a part I couldn?t really see. I wish I could have captured a good picture of both!
Peacock Flounder
Rainbow Parrotfish
The sun set during our fish dinner.
We went night snorkeling at home tonight, but my memory card was full. We forgot to erase the photos the last time we transferred them.
!!!! I’ve got pages of notes but now I’m getting serious with the details……this is really helpful. Diana
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