We are watching the weather and will be heading to St. Lucia shortly to visit with John Fallon for Christmas.
We dinghied over to the section of the Tobago Cays that is roped off to protect the turtles. This is where one feels very privilaged to swim with such graceful and beautiful creatures. Most of these turtles are the "green turtle".
Laurie and Maurice are equipped with banana to feed the fish. We discovered this particular part of the reef last year to be especially fish friendly. After awhile, we discovered that a few of the charter boats bring loads of people to this particular blob every day and the fish know what to expect! What a delight to see squirrel fish and rock hinds, and parrotfish swimming right up to us for a bite of banana!
These are Blue Tangs, which usually travel in large schools as they nibble on the reef.
Here is a sweet little wrass; they're only about 6 inches long, but very beautiful!
The rock hinds are usually quite shy and hide when you visit, but not these ones from this particular spot on the reef. They came out in plain view as you can see looking for the expected piece of banana from visiting swimmers!
A face only a mother rock hind could love! They're so homely, they're cute, don't you think?
Eagle Ray digging in the sand to loosen up bits of food. The cowfish follow him and take advantage of whatever he kicks up.
The parrotfish are lovely and colourful! This one is about 2 feet long!
Cowfish!
This is not zoomed in! He was looking for banana on my camera!
Petit Tobac Island in the Tobago Cays, is where parts of "Pirates of the Caribbean" were filmed. We went there for a picnic lunch.
This Sue and her visiting friend Kathy from Canada. We are on Petit Tobac island.
On our way out of the Tobago Cays, Maurice was getting things ready aboard Strider when I was able to take this beautiful picture of their boat with a rainbow. The sail to Bequia that day was beautiful, although, as usual the wind was a bit on the nose!
