Sunrise on Friday, October 21. The crescent moon shone brightly even as the sun rose underneath it.  

This morning, one of the neighbors in the anchorage filled our scuba tanks. What a relief that we can do the bottom again!

It was wavier on Friday than it had been on Thursday, and the anchorage was a little less comfortable. In the afternoon, we went snorkeling. We decided it was too wavy to be safe to snorkel in the best spot that we’d scoped out, the north-eastern rock, as it was exposed to the open waves. We opted to go to the northwestern rock. Look at the birds hanging out on the cactus on the rock.

And us getting ready to start snorkeling.

Unfortunately, the waves had stirred up the water, and the clarity wasn’t nearly as good as it had been yesterday. We stuck to the north and west sides, as they were the most protected. The west side of the rock was not interesting, with few fish and not much to look at beyond rocks. The west side also didn’t have a lot of fish, but it had a lot of pretty coral formations that looked like bushes filled with lavender and white flowers. It’s the most developed coral garden that we’ve seen yet.  

After we got back from snorkeling, we raised the dinghy up for the night. The weather forecast indicated there would be a wind shift that would cause dinghy to bash into Kosmos. Here is the sunset.

And here are the birds getting all riled up during the sunset