In the morning, we went snorkeling. I guess we picked a boat that most people wouldn't book because it was just the eight of us which was great. Imagine eight of us on a big boat all by ourselves. There were four crew members. It took over 30 minutes to get to our destination, but once we got there, they just dropped us right into the ocean. For someone like me who doesn't know how to swim, that was not a pleasant thing to do. It was also not what I expected. I was thinking that they would put us on land and let us slowly get into the water. Needless to say that once I got into the water, I freaked out. Luckily the beach was only about 50 feet away so the only thing I did was swim towards the beach. I guess Michael was one of the last ones to get into the water and he stated that by the time he got into the water, looked around for me, and asked where I was, I was already half way to the beach. Once I got to the beach, I calmed myself down and slowly got back into the water with the help of my younger sister. Eventually, I got use to the goggles, flippers, and life float. By that time, I was actually enjoying myself and was having a blast looking at the fishes swimming right next to me. We were told before we went into the water that there were no jellyfishes or sharks in the water. Well, we eventually figured out that was a lie because quite a few of us was stung by something. One of my younger sisters, May, and John got stung the worse. They were red all over. I got something wrapped around my wrist because I could see little red dots all around my wrist. Once we got back onto the boat, we were washed off with vinegar and the sting eventually disappeared.
The captain told us that the day before they spotted a whale so he decided to take us out to sea to see if we could find any whale. Another ship told him that they spotted one 3 miles off the coast so we headed that same way. We looked and looked, but never saw any whales. We did, however, saw a flying fish (everyone, but Michael). Overall, it was a blast and it was really cool to have a whole ship to ourselves.
At night, we went on a Sunset cruise. The cruise was nice, but because Michael and I went on the glass bottom boat two days ago, it wasn't as exciting because we visited the same places. Also, the sun was blocked by clouds so we didn't really get to see a very nice sunset. The food on the cruise was pretty good and the shows afterwards were neat. Below are links to a few of the shows we saw. After the cruise, we back to the hotel for dinner and called it a day after that.
At the end are some of the underwater pictures we took but developed later.
