5/21/2009

5-21-09

Today we spent most of the day in the national park - the northern part of the island where we couldn't get in yesterday. We drove around, saw blowholes, flamingos, and played with Iguanas. Totally cool. We lured the iguanas to us with orange peels and they came straight over.

we also did 2 dives. The first dive was pretty good, and the second dive would have been a total bust except for about 25 min into it, Walter saw a HUGE turtle. I'm still not sure what kind it is yet (need to look that up on Saturday). It was awesome. Must have been at 5 ft long and was so old it had barnacles on its back. Makes me think of the super old turtle in Finding Nemo :)

We did a night dive also at Angel City and it was very beautiful terrain. We saw an octopus and many camera-shy eels - weird really because all the eels I had seen before were not camera shy. Hence no eel pix from night dive.

I just love sitting here on the dock at night enjoying the ocean breeze, watching planes land and boats go by while blogging about it on my EEE. How could life get any better than this?

For dinner tonight, we went to Mona Lisa where I heard that if they have sushi, it's caught fresh that morning. Of course we had the sushi. Actually it was a four-course meal composed of fresh tuna with wasabi, shrimp cappucino, barracuda and lobster, and homemade mango cheesecake with strawberry sorbet. It was an incredible meal!! The tuna was super fresh. The shrimp cappucino was a shrimp bisque with a shrimp foam, very nicely done. The barracuda was very tasty and the lobster well cooked. THe cheesecake is ridiculously awesome!! It totally melts in the mouth and was so light it could have floated away, and even the sorbet was to die for. Overall, a wonderful day!

blowhole



chain eel
goldentail
colorful snails
big turtle
octopus

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