Today was easy - light house work followed by an afternoon swim. You thought yesterday was good?! Today we saw everything: 1 turtle, 2 eagle rays (one feeding!), the angel fish, BABY trunk fish, caught 2 lion fish, and 10 or 11 inch cow fish. The reefs were alive today.
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he best part was the conch out of it's shell, we watched the tentacles feeling out the ocean for a while. Just as we turned to go on I spotted something snake-like on the coral. I thought it was an eel out of it's hole which is rare to see, but it turned out to be better: it was an octopus. Not just and octopus but an octopus sticking its tentacles in a hole with appeared to be occupied by an even larger octopus. We watched for a long time while the little one tentatively put its feelers down the hole and flinch back time after time as the larger one in the whole kicked back. We were trying to figure out what was going on - territory dispute? mating ritual? just messing around? We may never know.Tonight is the last day for the archeologists, so we've made some evening plans after they are done putting the final touches on their field work. I'm beginning to like tourist season here. Good company abounds!
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