Another lovely snorkeling day today. The excursion said “4o minute ride on a fast boat to Roderick Bay Resort & Bungalow”, then snorkeling and then 40 minute return to dock.
Well, the boat wasn’t that fast and it took us over 2 hours to get to the resort and another 2 hours to get back. We were, once again, the very last group back.
It was a lovely smooth ride to the resort and the resort was beautiful and peaceful. I was happy it wasn’t a flashy, modern, new resort. We were greeted with a spear and a question “do you come in peace or war?” we, of course, answered with “peace”. They gave us a lei and a fresh cut coconut so we could drink the coconut water. They played music as well.
They did not have snorkel gear for us but I spoke to one of the guides and he found a mask & snorkel for me. He requested a tip and I was happy to oblige.
The water was clear and I saw lots of fish. I watched a sea slug/serpent type animal for quite some time then as I was swimming back I saw a hole bunch of them- that wasn’t nearly as nice as they reminded me of snakes so I quickly swam past them. I looked on google to see what they were- I searched ‘sea slug’, ‘sea serpent’ and ‘sea snake’ with no luck. Jennifer figured out they were sea cucumbers!
There was a cruise ship wreck that happened in about 2000, the ship was still in front of the island. The children loved to play on it.
I finished snorkeling and realized, folks were heading back to the large boat. I found the gentleman that lent me the snorkel and gave it back along with a tip and went to the gathering place. While I was there another gentleman came over and asked me if I still had the snorkel….I had given it to the wrong person. I gave the correct gentleman a tip and we both laughed.
It took another 2+ hours to get back to the ship and since they only had one engine, it took a small boat to steer us to the pier. They loaded us up on vans and drove about 3 minutes to our ship. Just as we got there it started raining. The guides all held umbrellas for us and we didn’t get wet. When the ship departed a few minutes later, it was pouring rain.
