Hi Everybody, Welcome Back!!!
I’m finally getting a chance to finish up the afternoon blog for last week, June 12 – 15, 2012. I’ve been crazy busy doing double sessions, having FUN and I also had to upgrade my flickr account so I could post all the pictures I wanted!!! Yippeee!!!
To begin with, let me just say the afternoon session had as much FUN and Adventure On The High Seas as the morning group did for the week. Everything was phenominal and we had a blast from the very first second till the moment we had to come back!!! During the week, one of the many highlights was catching a big nurse shark that we had a chance to photograph, and carefully check out up close and personal before releasing her. She was awesome and we all loved it!!!
Other highlights:
We saw manatees with calves right next to the boat and also along the inlet, and another day we watched bottlenose dolphin play off our bow. We snorkeled with hundreds of different species of fish at the Rock Garden and caught dozens of pufferfish like there was no tomorrow!!! I’ll let some photos do the rest of the talking!!!
Amanda sure loved finding this cute pufferfish!!!
We caught a few spotted yellow rays in our nets and had a chance to hold one without a venemous barb. We all loved how that ray would suck right on to us like we were the bottom. I could sure tell Joseph thought that ray was great while Sophia was holding it!!! This photo cracks me up!!! Nice job making me laugh Joseph!!!
We spent a little bit of time snorkeling the sea grass beds and found a few lobster we could catch with our hands. We all thought that was cool!!! I know Beau sure did!!!
We found dozens of cool creatures seine netting the shallows along the sea grass beds and I knew for certain Dylan thought this seahorse was a winner!!!
We spent a good bit of time snorkeling around Peanut Island each day and it was sometimes hard to get Dylan L. out of the water!!! He was having a blast!!!
On our fishing day we caught so many fish that we stopped counting. Everything from snappers, grunts, tomtates, sailors choice, sergeant majors, porkfish, butter hamlets, pinfish and blue runners, and more, etc.. Just non-stop action as usual!!!
Ben had fun catching fish non stop!!!
We found 9 armed starfish and beaded starfish at the Big Sandbar and even a few cushion starfish scattered about. I know Sophie loved finding this nice 9 armed starfish!!!
We spent some time snorkeling around little Munyon Island and found hundreds of variegated sea urchins, a few queen conchs and some huge cushion starfish! Sarah found one that was a monster!!!
Of all the things we did, I think Bailey love holding this barbless spotted yellow ray the best!!! Her smile was contageous!!! AWESOME!!!
Everytime we went thru a slow speed zone we would troll for barracudas or what ever else felt like eating out plug! On this day Joseph had a ball catching this big barracuda!!!
We found, saw, shared and did so many cool things that the week flew before we knew it and I could tell no one wanted to go home by the time the week came to an end!!! Needless to say, we had one fun-filled week of Adventure On The High Seas too!!! Wish you all could have joined us!!! We had a BLAST from start to finish!!! It was just GREAT!!! Here’s a few more pics of us having FUN!!!
Sophia and fighting conchs at the Big Sandbar.
Sarah with a lined seahorse.
Amanda finds a 9 armed starfish at Peanut Island.
Beau checks out a barracuda we caught earlier.
Sophie checks out this horseshoe crab she found in the shallows.
Joseph has Fun with a cool horseshoe crab hairdo!!
Bailey and Sophia show off the largest and smallest sea urchins of the day.
Ben finds another cushion starfish in the shallows.
Amanda and Dylan L. having FUN at the Rock Garden.
Dylan showing off another lobster she caught!! Just AWESOME.
The group finding 4 different species of sea urchins and having a BLAST.
Bailey and Sophia snorkeling the sandbar, finding hermit crabs and having FUN.
Like I said, “We had an AWESOME WEEK!!!” Morning and afternoos sessions!!!!
To check out the rest of the photos from this weeks session, please click on “Check out our FLICKR photostream” found a little bit down on this home page on the right side and go to “June 5 – 8, 2012 PM session”. ENJOY!!!
I just can’t wait to do it all over again!!! Stay tuned for next weeks sessions!!! I know its going to be GREAT!!! See you all soon!!!
Let’s Go Have Some Fun!!!
AdventureMike