Octopus

I had a pretty fun day but I’m completely wiped out! Bill went diving again this morning and he’s working on a post. I was wrong about about the other beaches not having security guards, and I got kicked off a beach that I needed to cross to snorkel this morning. That was very frustrating, but I was not deterred! I got a paddle board from the resort and bypassed the beaches to get to my snorkeling location. I found a perfect little cove not connected to a resort where I parked my paddle board and I spent the rest of the morning snorkeling. It was my best snorkeling trip here. The location was good and I was on my own so no time limit and no life jacket. I saw lots of neat stuff. The wind had really picked up on the way back, which made paddle boarding rough.

I just got back from a nighttime snorkel trip. Bill did a night dive. I saw a couple of squid, some sea slugs, and an octopus. I missed the octopus last time so I was really excited see one this time. It was awesome! I asked if I could borrow a flashlight from the resort so I could go night snorkeling on my own, but the dive people wouldn’t give me one. I don’t think they were super excited that I went snorkeling alone earlier today.

I got to meet some of Bills new dive friends for dinner before we all went out on the water. He met a couple from Texas. Sally is a GIS instructor (degree in hydrology) at a community college in TX and Sean works in tech. She travels a lot and has been certified to dive for a couple of years and Sean has decided to do the same thing. They seem nice and we enjoyed talking to them. I also went snorkeling tonight with a couple from Oxford, Mississippi. They were super friendly. They also got certified to dive today, but decided to snorkel tonight. They said I wouldn’t recognize Oxford. It’s grown enormously in the last 10 years. When school is in session, it has a population of 60,000. I think it was only around 20,000 when I was there.

I’m out of energy and that’s all I’ve got for tonight!