Yesterday aboard Promenade, managed to get even more hectic than before. There was a big swim first thing, followed by a big breakfast to keep everyone going till lunch time, these guys can eat, I guess its all the exercise! We headed over to Angel fish reef on Norman to check it out, Rich and Heather took their cameras for a dive and what a dive, they saw loads of cool stuff, the funniest thing was in Heathers pictures, she had all the creatures and Rich in every shot, in Richs pictures it was the same except Heather and the creatures. Heres Rich and the turtle with his butt in the air, Rich not the turtle!!
They also saw during the dive a reef shark devouring an octopus, sad for the octopus, but pretty amazing to see! I was quite jealous as I had already missed the manta! Look carefully and you can see the octopus mid water
Mark, our eldest member aboard, has astounded everyone, he is like the Duracell Bunny, he keeps on going forever, after the 2 mile morning swim, he did another few miles while Rich dived and every one else snorkled, he then swam over to the caves while we motored over
We had a huge thunder storm while we were at the caves, it didn't slow any one down though and it washed the boat down nicely!
Cute richie picture, just because
After the caves it was a cruise up to Little Harbour, this was the lazy 1 swim day so to make up for it we did an afternoon of pull toys!!!!! Doesn’t seem like a relax to me. We had a try out for our new deck hand, we got Will to swim the line ashore, he did a great job once we got him in the water and stopped holding onto the line so he couldn’t get anywhere! It amused us any how
Out came the banana boat
With the inevitable end
Those of you who remember our first deck hand Brad, he was anchored next door and not on charter so was out playing
Then the predator came out, it was harder to get on than stay on apparently, heres the 2 Chris’s
Every one was in a jolly mood so I thought a little cocktail hour game could be in order, so we played Bushwakers, Adrianne won and she happened to win the last surviving Bush waker T shirt we have aboard, so now they are a rare commodity if you have one hold on to it, it might be worth something eventually! Luckily she won too as it was a small!
It was quite a noisy night after the bushwakers, but fun was had by all
Another big swim this morning, followed by visits to the Chubb house
with the usual wild life, even a goat skull was brought back to the boat!
Some kayaked
and a spot of free diving coaching from Richie, Heather and Will got down to 55 feet, a personal best
Absolutely no wind at all today, so no sailing to be had, instead of a relax while we moved we played the “jump off the bow and wash up the back of the boat” game, which they all loved, then to finish the day off it was an epic swim from Dead Chest to Dead Mans Bay, not a long swim, but a little choppy. Historically it is also where Black Beard marooned his crew, as in “yo ho ho and a bottle of rum, 10 dead men on a dead mans chest”. As the story goes they were stuck on the Island of Dead chest with a bottle of rum, the stranded pirates all decided to try to swim to Peter Island as it was bigger and I guess they thought a better chance of water and food, unfortunately they couldn’t swim and all drown, their bodies washed up in Dead Mans Bay, hence the name. Hopper has always wanted Swim Vacation to do this swim, but the weather has never cooperated, but today was the day. The guys loved it, it was a challenge but good and Chris even saw a little nurse shark! To celebrate I made margaritas, what more can you ask for!
