We are moored in Fishers Bay on Great Guana Cay and are right across from Dive Guana. With today’s forecast for flat seas and warm temps, we decided to go snorkeling with Captain Troy and crew, Calvin, Shem and Troy’s 10 year old daughter, Isabella, who will definitely be the boss of this boat in a few years.
We were joined today by Linda and George from “Chez Nous”, a beautiful 42 foot French sailing catamaran. They have been live-aboards for the past 2 years, will go up to the Chesapeake this summer and then take a long voyage through the Caribbean down to South America and then take the boat across the Atlantic to the Mediterranean.
Linda joined Bob and me snorkeling while George did some scuba diving with Troy. Calvin was in charge of the snorkel group and gave us some great tips for avoiding water in the mask and tube. Notice that we are in wetsuits even though the water here is 73 degrees. I don’t know if I will ever be able to just jump into 60-65 degree Great Lakes water ever again. We had a great time and saw so many fish on the barrier reef at Pillars and Grouper Alley. I wish that I had an underwater camera to show you exactly what we saw but I borrowed some photo shots to show you what it looked like--French grunts, parrotfish, grouper, angelfish.
As we hovered above, we could also see the scuba divers 40 feet below serpentining through caves and around the reefs and leaving a stream of huge bubbles that were fun to catch. The scuba divers did not see the 6 foot reef shark swimming under the dive boat, but we snorkelers did up close and personal and certainly got our money’s worth.
This is Easter weekend and Nippers on Guana Cay has a unique twist on the Easter egg hunt tradition. They are going to hide plastic Easter eggs filled with prizes in the water for the kids and, in the reef just offshore for the adults.
We were joined today by Linda and George from “Chez Nous”, a beautiful 42 foot French sailing catamaran. They have been live-aboards for the past 2 years, will go up to the Chesapeake this summer and then take a long voyage through the Caribbean down to South America and then take the boat across the Atlantic to the Mediterranean.
Linda joined Bob and me snorkeling while George did some scuba diving with Troy. Calvin was in charge of the snorkel group and gave us some great tips for avoiding water in the mask and tube. Notice that we are in wetsuits even though the water here is 73 degrees. I don’t know if I will ever be able to just jump into 60-65 degree Great Lakes water ever again. We had a great time and saw so many fish on the barrier reef at Pillars and Grouper Alley. I wish that I had an underwater camera to show you exactly what we saw but I borrowed some photo shots to show you what it looked like--French grunts, parrotfish, grouper, angelfish.
As we hovered above, we could also see the scuba divers 40 feet below serpentining through caves and around the reefs and leaving a stream of huge bubbles that were fun to catch. The scuba divers did not see the 6 foot reef shark swimming under the dive boat, but we snorkelers did up close and personal and certainly got our money’s worth.
This is Easter weekend and Nippers on Guana Cay has a unique twist on the Easter egg hunt tradition. They are going to hide plastic Easter eggs filled with prizes in the water for the kids and, in the reef just offshore for the adults.
