Today after we went out by boat to look at a few properties (more on those later), when we got home, the sea in our cove was as still as a lake. No waves. No noise. The clear water was visible for probably 80 feet down! We quickly put on our snorkel gear and headed out.
All I can say is Wow. It was stunning. It was surreal. It was breathtaking.
As we headed out to the "wall" we slowly passed over various types of coral. There were not a lot of fish there, but then we we got to the cliff where the reef drops, suddenly we were staring down at a forest of coral: a million shades of green, yellow and purple all slowly waving in the sea currents. At the face of the reef cliff the depth drops and becomes a stunning wall of life sided by the most brilliant bright royal blue water. The sun rays shining down through the water made it appear as though the sunbeams were coming from the bottom of the sea. It was truly mesmerizing. There were schools of brilliant blue fish, yellow and black, pink and purple. Some small, some large, and at one point a large stingray slowly glided beneath me.
If you dive there (and three people were while we snorkeled above them - our bellies tickled by their bubbles) you can apparently see Seahorses, tiny Pipe Horses, Upside-down jelly fish and a variation of different reef fish. The whole experience was really quite surreal. We truly are in a great location. People pay a lot of money to hire a boat and come out here to snorkel and dive, and all we need to do is walk fifteen feet from our front door and start snorkeling.
Later, as I rested on the dock in the warm sun Steph floated on the air mattress and he just kept saying over and over, “I cannot believe I am here. This is the most amazing place I have ever been.”
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