Day Eight

Woke up pretty hung over today. It was a late night last night, closed down the bars at about 2:30 – I went to the dive shop this morning, hung out at the restaraunt next door for a bit – waited for Jamie to come by and say his final goodbye’s. He is on the afternoon flight back to Houston and then home near Winnipeg. Will miss having a partner in crime every day. 

After hanging out at the shop for a bit and chatting with Jamie and the other regulars – I headed home to shower and then went over to West Bay to meet up with Sara and Brittaney. Didn’t see them right away, so I went on a little walk down to the far end of West Bay, and then came back. I still didn’t see them – figured they had left me hanging and were late (not that women are ever late.....). I grabbed a beer at a beach bar and got the wifi password to try and connect with the girls. Turns out they were waiting for me at a restaurant the whole time. Went and sat at the beach bar swings with them and ordered some breakfast. Had a huge breakfast with an omelette, hash browns and toast. After that, Brittaney had to go to her dive, so Britt, Sara and I headed into West End on a water taxi. Brittaney headed to her dive shop, me and Sara were going to chill on the beach all day and do a little bit of snorkelling. 

Went down to my hotel, got everything organized, and then headed out to the beach in front. We snorkelled under the dock where the submarine “parks”. Saw some more Lobster, Crabs, a Huge Eel (Sara was too freaked out to look at it :P) some large Sea Urchins, and some type of Sea Caterpiller – will have to get the fish book out and try to identify it. We headed back in after snorkelling the dock, and chilled on the beach chairs for a while. It was nice to finally do some relaxing... stayed there with Sara and hung out in the water and on the chairs for a while. We decided to grab her stuff out of my room and head down towards the dive shop to meet up with Brittaney and Melissa. We figured out they were on the late dive boat, and we still had over an hour until their return So we went out for another snorkel along the reef shore of Half Moon Bay. It was good, saw a cool Sea Slug and lots of fish and coral. Sara hurt her back and was unable to do any diving on her trip here – So it was nice to be able to take her out and show her some of the reef. After snorkelling we went to the Buena Vida and had a beer and unwinded after being in the ocean. 

Then we headed out for dinner with me and all the girls. Went to the Lily.... Pothouse? I don’t think that is the right name, but either way – dinner was delicious. The four of us split two Fisherman’s Special Plates. They had the catch of the day – SeaBass – Shrimp, lobster and veggies and rice. It was a fantastic dinner. Very delicious seafood tonight – can’t seem to get enough of it. After finishing dinner we went down to Sundowners and discovered the beach bonfire that was going on. 

We got some drinks and went and sat in the beach chairs near the fire – Didn’t need to get to close as it was already extremely hot. There are two golden retrievers that are owned by the owners of Sundowners and they were hanging out with us. They were actually guarding us from other dogs for a while – it was kind of funny to watch. After a few beers down at the bonfire we decided to head over to the TV, just to catch a few minutes of the Battle of Alberta – had no idea it was on tonight. Luckily the flames were winning (and went on to win the game, I believe). I’ve been trying to keep up on my sports a little bit, like hockey and the Masters, but its difficult with this spotty WIFI. After watching some quick hockey – we headed down to the taco stand we found yesterday, and everybody had an order of the beef taco’s – they are AMAZING. Grilled right in front of you, made to order. After that, got the girls a cab, and headed back home – The girls are headed fishing and touring tomorrow, I’m going to sleep in I think - havent gotten much sleep since I've been here