Saturday, August 15, 2009

August 8th & August 9th

August 8th was our last day of diving. The first dive was cool, we just saw all the regular fish, but then we also saw a huge pufferfish!



On the 2nd dive, was dropped right down to a bunch of nurse sharks!! The dive site was called "Esmeralda's canyon." The sharks swam right up to us, and when another group showed up with food, we were able to pet the sharks, swim with them, and even hold them! It was very cool.

Me & Mike with the nurse sharks:


Making friends with a nurse shark:


Mike petting the sharks:



In the afternoon, we went snorkeling in Hol Chan Marine Reserve & Shark Ray Alley. We saw another pufferfish, a couple turtles, more nurse sharks, stingrays, a spotted eagle ray, and tons of fish. It was very cool in the reserve, because there were schools of fish, and every age of fish - so we saw the juveniles and adults of all kinds of fish.



Baby tang:



For our last dinner, we walked down the beach to Blue Water grill. Then, we went to Wet Willy's for a few drinks, watched the UFC fight, and listened to a great local blues band.

August 9th was our last day in Belize. :( We had a great breakfast at Estel's, even though we got rained on, and it was super windy. It started raining even harder when we started walking back to our hotel, we got soaked! No problems getting back to the states. We had a great trip, and I didn't want to leave! I can't wait to go back.

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