Christi started the morning by finishing the bottom. Much to her dismay, everything she had scrubbed yesterday had a fine little layer of growth return. She decided to just pretend like nothing had grown back and to just work on the previously uncleaned areas. It took her an hour.

From there we went snorkeling in the coral reef next to our boat. As we were swimming out there, the people we had met from San Diego, Eric and Gisela, came up to us in their dinghy. They were also going snorkeling, so we all went together. The reef had small spots of color, but was mostly all light brown. There were a lot of coral shaped like Bryce Canyon, which was neat. There were a few fish, but not a ton. We did see a couple new fish we have not seen before. One had a beak and came in a few colors. We saw one black tipped reef shark about 5 feet long. There were a lot of plants growing on the coral that had long spindly branches with thorny looking things at the ends. The most noteworthy plant looked like a single dark pink rose stuck on the side of a coral head. It almost looked like someone had glued a plastic flower to the coral. We only saw one. Continue reading →