Hi Everybody, Welcome Back!!!
We’ve just finished up the second week of Fun and Adventure on the high seas and what a fantastic week we had!!! This was the first week doing morning and afternoon sessions so it was basically non stop FUN from dawn to dusk!!! We had a great week, great weather and an absolutely GREAT group of kids! It just couldn’t have been nicer!!! I’ll start with the morning session first.
One morning we had incredibly low tide and had a ball having fun Island Style!!!
We spent a bit of each morning exploring the sandbar where the group found 4 different species of starfish, numerous fighting conchs, blue crabs and box crabs galore! We visited the Rock Garden every day and loved swimming with hundreds of fish of all sizes, shapes and colors! We spent Thursday fishing like there was no tomorrow and everyone caught fish non stop! Each day we observed manatees feeding in the shallow sea grass beds and on a few occasions we watched bottlenose dolphins with newborn calves play just off our bow. It was just great!!! Another morning we went seining in the grass flats and came up with juvenile barracudas, yellowtail snapper, juvenile boxfish and a beautiful long spined burrfish. I think the highlight of the week for the kids came when we pulled in a line baited with a chunk of barracuda and had a 6 to 7 foot nurse shark on. We thought that was awesome!!! We all had a chance to check her out up close and personal before unhooking her and letting her go. Did we ever love that!!! Needless to say we had one fun-filled week of Adventure On The High Seas. Wish you could have joined us!!! It was just GREAT!!! Let’s check out some pics!
Enjoying the “Hot Tub” at the Big Sandbar after a long day of snorkeling!
Jillian with a long-spined burrfish!!!
Owen comes up with a Giant Hermit Crab at the Rock Garden!!!
Jules finds a Big Cushion Starfish while exploring the Sandbar!
Ethan finds a lovely Queen Conch while exploring ths shallows!!!
AJ catches the biggest Ceasars Grunt of the day!!!
Max finds a big 9 armed starfish! Way to go!!!
Jack catches a swimming crab at the Rock Garden!!!
Brett catches a colorful Sergeant Major!!!
Isaac finds a Florida Fighting Conch along the Sandbar!!!
Christian catches a spotted filefish at the Rock Garden!!!
Group catches a Nurse Shark!!!
To check out the rest of the photos from this weeks morning 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 12 – 15, 2012 AM session”. Hope you enjoy!!! See you all soon!!!
Let’s Go Have Some Fun!!!
AdventureMike
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