Boonie Stomp II

This is cool.  I forget if it's important for something.

Cool moss.  Walking through the jungle is great.  Just wear bug spray.  It was also very humid, so it was very sweaty.

Do you see the crab hanging from the tree?  I've never seen that.

That big blue hole is where a bomb fell.  It blew up all the coral and left only sand.

Blue starfish were everywhere.  Starfish are such weird creatures.

We also went to see a freshwater lake.  There were too many mosquitoes.

This is the whale rock.  See it?  Also, notice that on the way back, the tide is much receded.

With the tide receded, you can see all the rocks.  That's why you wear shoes when you walk in the water.

The Boonie Stomp

The person with the red backpack is my friend.

By the time we came back through, the tide had gone out and we were walking on land.

They say the rock over my right shoulder looks like a whale blowing water out its blowhole.

Cool algae growing on rocks.

Can you see the tiny crabs in their shells?

There is a group out here called the Boonie Stompers.  They go hiking every Saturday morning.  I went with a fellow JAG to see what it was like.  It was fun, but took forever.  We ended up leaving early.  The Boonie Stompers are in no rush to do anything.  But it was pretty.

More snorkeling

Those yellow ridges looked a little like waffle cones.  I wanted to go get ice cream.

The creepy fish keep following me!

More coral.  It's difficult to pick out the fish that were there.  The pictures usually just look like a bunch of coral, but I promise there were fish!

Coral arch

Can you find the fish?

Scuba divers going further out to sea.

This dude kept trying to keep his flip flops on.  He was going really slow and it was frustrating because I wasn't feeling well and just wanted to get back to shore.  He should have taken his flip flops off and swam.

Snorkeling with Friends

Beach where we went snorkeling.  The first place we went was closed, so this was second choice.  It rained briefly before we went in.  You can't tell by the sunny skies, but it's rainy and sunny all the time.

The blue flippers are mine.

In order to get past the sharp coral, you have to follow these pipes.  I think they are fiber optic cables, but I don't remember.

This is where it gets deep enough to leave the pipeline and start snorkeling.  The pipes were cool.

My friends dove a lot.  They are both scuba divers.  I'm not.  I'm sure I'll go eventually, but I don't think it will be my thing.

She picked up a starfish.

The water was a little murky, so most of the pictures I took turned out a little... eh.  But this is nice of the coral.

This area had deep caverns filled with sand.  I don't know how they were formed, but the coral was around and then the caverns just went down.  Not too far, you could dive to the bottom.

As my friends proved.  They dove down.

Fish highway!

She is pointing to a long, skinny fish.  I couldn't really see it, so I took a picture.  So for my loyal blog viewers- go find the fish!

These random fish were always following you for some reason. You'd turn around and there they were.  They would scatter in front of you and then follow behind.

I went snorkeling with some friends from work.  I should do it more often.  But they like scuba diving more.  So, I'm left to snorkel when I can.  We went around the first week of October or so.  We went to "the Beach Bar" which, aptly named, is a bar on the beach.  They have a large parking lot and lots of people go there to snorkel and dive.  I didn't eat a good breakfast, so I got a little sea sick.  The water was a little rough, hence the lack of visibility.