Sunday, April 12, 2009

Hey all!

First of all, happy Easter!

Today was another one of those days that are awesome. We had a wonderful Easter brunch with more pastries and sweets than we were used to handling, and all done with a very limited food supply (shipment comes in tomorrow or Tues) and NO butter! After we digested our delicious feast, some of us decided to snorkel out to Long Cay. It was a beautiful day, very little current, calm water, warm air. It was just under a mile swim, we guessed, but with our flippers it only took about 20 minutes to swim it.


When we got there, we wandered around, exploring the island. It's a really cool island...it's totally uninhabited, except for rock iguanas, but they're shy anyway. It's all sandstone that's been wind and wave worn, making for some really unique rock climbing opportunities. On the outside of the island (the side that faces open ocean), there are some really really amazing cliffs that are just absolutely breathtaking.

This is a picture of some of the cliffs. But being the adventurous souls that we are, we decided to find water deep enough below the cliffs to do some cliff jumping! It took a while to find, and after some time, we kind of forgot our quest and were just climing around on rocks, but then we found a prime spot.


The cliff was about 20-25 feet above the water surface, and the water below was like 10 feet deep. It was such an incredible adrenaline rush!



This is a group shot from our adventure. From L to R, is Curtis, Neil, Marine, Andrew, Me, Lee, Adam and Sam. It was so much fun. On the snorkel back (which seemed wayyyyy longer) we saw a huge eagle ray that got really close to us. It was a really great day!
Hope everyone had a great Easter!








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