We arrived in the Bahamas on Wednesday, Feb. 25, and the unhurried pace of life on the islands immediately captured my soul--which explains why I have not bothered to open my laptop and post to this blog until now. There has been plenty of free time, but I chose to leave it that way--free and unencumbered by the thought process. Instead, we have passed the time getting together with old friends and meeting new ones.
Our days have been filled with time at beaches with cream-colored sand lying in smooth rippled patterns that echo the surface of the crystalline aqua water lapping against the shore. As the sun beat down, the refreshing sea beckoned us. At Gold Rock Beach, Peter, Dan and I swam to a small, rocky island in the distance. Purple fan coral, orange fire coral and many other colorful varieties provide a healthy habitat for gorgeous fish. Beaky parrotfish pecked at the coral while four-eyes, jacks, wrasse, squirrelfish, the spiky-finned hogfish, and damselfish swam among the array of coral structures. Echinoderms such as sea anemones were tucked into crevasses on the reef, while puffy sea biscuits and flat sand dollars as well as large, knobby sea stars decorated the sandy bottom between the island and the shore.
Some of us who went to Gold Rock Beach in Grand Lucayan Park also took the time to do a brief exploration of a couple apertures to the longest known underwater cave system in the world.
Our days have been filled with time at beaches with cream-colored sand lying in smooth rippled patterns that echo the surface of the crystalline aqua water lapping against the shore. As the sun beat down, the refreshing sea beckoned us. At Gold Rock Beach, Peter, Dan and I swam to a small, rocky island in the distance. Purple fan coral, orange fire coral and many other colorful varieties provide a healthy habitat for gorgeous fish. Beaky parrotfish pecked at the coral while four-eyes, jacks, wrasse, squirrelfish, the spiky-finned hogfish, and damselfish swam among the array of coral structures. Echinoderms such as sea anemones were tucked into crevasses on the reef, while puffy sea biscuits and flat sand dollars as well as large, knobby sea stars decorated the sandy bottom between the island and the shore.
Some of us who went to Gold Rock Beach in Grand Lucayan Park also took the time to do a brief exploration of a couple apertures to the longest known underwater cave system in the world.
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