I cannot believe we slept as much as we did. But our family woke up at 8:00 am with an alarm… that’s more than 12 hours for us and I can honestly say it has NEVER happened.
We met at 9:00 am in the courtyard and then went to the restaurant in the hotel. It was a great meal. We wrapped up around 10:45 with just enough time to pack up and check out by 11:00a.
We hung out in the courtyard with our bags and waited for our driver (the same one as yesterday) to pick us up.
The boat is amazing! I was blown away!
We were treated with a Welcome Cocktail, called the Painkiller, which is very similar to a Pina colada plus orange juice. After a very short tour of the boat, we headed out. It was a beautiful ride… appx 40 minutes around the southern coast to Christmas Cove. We anchored there and enjoyed the afternoon in the sun.
We headed in toward shore with our snorkeling gear and explored around a shipwreck. We saw a sea ray buried in the sand below as well as a sea turtle and lots of fish.
We played around with the water scooters, a small hand-held, motorized toy that propels you through the water. They were lots of fun! Even more cool, they could handle two riders so we took turns, one holding the scooter and the other hanging on to the driver's feet.
After that, we had afternoon snacks: egg rolls, chicken gyoza, and edamame. Then we just lounged around the boat and enjoyed the view.
We took about 30 mins to let the food settle and then headed out on the dinghy to go night snorkeling. It was so fun and something none of us have done before. We saw an octopus hidden in his little home, several sea urchin and a number of large tarpon. Nick shared that they often come in to use the light of our flashlights to hunt for food.
Probably the highlight for me was seeing a very large sea ray swim in, rest on the ocean floor and then swim up toward us on its way out of the area. It was so beautiful! And super exciting!
We laughed a whole lot as each of us struggled to get back in the dinghy and then headed back aboard Heavenly for warm showers and a quiet evening together.
The day was perfect. There’s literally no other way to describe it. We lost track of time and found the best things about life… new experiences, friends, laughter.
