Saturday, September 19, 2009

The Indians (7.30.09)

Spectacular snorkeling can be found beneath the Indians, which is a series of tall jagged rocks just off Pelican Island. Underneath is amazing coral and the largest variety of fish that we’d swum with so far. On the north side, shallow water creates a "fish bowl," where there are swirling clouds of bait fish. Pelicans dive-bombed fish below as we made our way in and around the Indians. There is a natural tunnel about 10 feet underwater that those with good diving talents can swim through while exiting the fish bowl. Lloyd always dives it; GB and Andy did it, too. Jen, Mandy and I just wished we were that cool. Hey, someone has to stay behind and be a spectator, right? Thousands of bait fish (and I mean thousands) clouded our view, but, here’s Andy coming up for air after swimming through the tunnel (see the tiny speck of light at his foot?—that’s the tunnel!). But, just so you can appreciate that it's a tight fit, you can see the tunnel better in the next pic.

No comments: