Every Day

Sunday morning we got up and decided to go for a snorkel at the Charles Darwin Research beach before our friends joined us in the afternoon. Ty and I were the only ones with our own mask and snorkel but my parents had swim goggles. Heres the beach at low tide (you can see the high tide mark) but just as beautiful: It was a warm, sunny day but the water was still pretty chilly. I had my lava core (thick wetsuit type top) and was still cold! It took me awhile to get into the water and it was my first snorkel in over a year so it always takes a little getting used to. You have to breathe differently through a snorkel, long and slow breaths (I keep having to tell myself: no, you are not going to drown with your face in the water, you have a freeking snorkel in your mouth...). Immediately, we noticed the lack of corals but still an abundance of fishes on the reef. My dad stayed with us for awhile but then Ty wanted to get out further and it was just the two of us. We were exploring ...

Tonight, I led our Night Snorkel for the first time. I was super apprehensive about leading the snorkel for a few reasons.  1) Its at night. The boogie man comes out at night. Among other things that scare us at night.  2) When Im in the water, I tend to have a harder time determining where I am and it makes me nervous. 3) Im not completely comfortable as a snorkeler myself, so having to be in charge of others who are not great snorkelers makes me anxious. 4) What if we don't see anything or the guests are having a bad time or I can't point out anything?? 5) Its cold at night. What if I get too cold and want to come in early or am just miserable the whole time? So in any case, Ty has been doing a lot of the snorkeling because of this list and he told me that I was leading the snorkel tonight.  I had a good day and was feeling pretty good about the snorkel. There was only a family of four signed up, no problem.  The whole family was pretty recep...