Our first trip to the northside of the island and hopefully we'll be diving there for the next couple days. They only make the trip when the seas are calm and it's where you go to see whalesharks, so our fingers are crossed. No luck with that today but we got to see more of the island and some of the Cays while we were enroute to the dive sites. A couple of the cays have a single house and can be rented for about $130 a night, so you can say you stayed on your own private tropical island. During our surface interval we stopped at the 'first settled' cay for fish burgers and were lucky to detour through the settlement (the boat typically stops in front of the restaurant but today tied up to a different wharf). Unfortunately the cameras were chilling in the freshwater rinse tank on the boat, otherwise there would have been some cool shots of fish drying in the sun and the kids playing during recess. Our first dive was really great, lots of sandy channels to break up the coral heads. This is by far the best, most intact coral we've seen and really vibrant colors in the shallows with the natural light.
Underwater highlight of the day was a nurse shark resting in the sand between the coral heads and the eagle ray cruising around our hotel. Gary headed out for a night dive and Vicky stayed back to read in the hammock and enjoy the beautiful sunset.
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