Snorkeled at Grecian Rocks Today; Beautiful!

First thing this morning, Chuck rode his bike back to West Marine and bought the Garmin transducer for depth that he was eyeing up. We've been in a lot of shallow spots and our depth finder sometimes goes out for a split second and he wants to have more confidence in knowing the depth. It plugs into our Garmin chartplotter and glues into the inside hull of the bow, under the V-berth. That's a project he'll get to in a day or two.

While he was gone, I packed all of our snorkeling gear, lunch, snacks, towels and dry clothes. When he got back, we ate breakfast, then loaded up Bum's Rest for the ride to the reef.

The temperature was 80 degrees, the sun was shining and water temp was 75. We started for coordinates to see "Christ of the Deep" at Dry Rocks reef, but we were in 5-6 ft. seas, so Wayne turned around and headed for the Grecian Rocks mooring balls. Jazzy was a nervous wreck, so we put her downstairs as soon as we starting hitting some decent-sized waves. It was much calmer at the Grecian Rocks. After a few minutes, the the other diving boats left, and we moved to a ball that was protected by the reef.

Chuck and I donned our lycra skins and wet suits, fins and snorkels and jumped into the water. At first, we just saw sea grass and lots of white sand with an occasional fish. We snorkeled over to the "Danger Reef" sign and hit the jackpot.

I stole this photo from Patti's blog.

I saw barracudas, yellow stingray, needlenose fish, reef squirrelfish, yellowjack, and whole schools of fish, including about 40 or so parrotfish: blue, redband and rainbow. We saw all kinds of corals and sea fans. I took about 30 or so photos with my disposable underwater cameras. I hope I got some good photos!

We snorkeled for probably a couple of hours until I was too tired to swim anymore. Wayne jumped in for a few minutes and checked out the reef. We made lunch and ate before unhooking from the mooring and heading back in. We got back to the dock around 6 p.m.

Since we had such a late lunch, I cooked a sirloin steak and made us each a salad for a light dinner. It was delicious! We had cookies with coffee for dessert.

We decided to stay here another day and then look at weather to decide when to leave for Miami. Patti and I will do laundry tomorrow.