Info!

So it turns out that my little fishy fren (click through to the blog post for another pic) is a juvenile yellow jack. Why he was following me could be “shadow feeding”–waiting for me to kick stuff up off the sea floor for him to eat, or waiting for me to eat something so he…

Ultimate coolness

We gathered on the observation deck at 11PM and the ship’s crew turned the light off for us so we could see the stars! And an astronomer was out there identifying them and talking about them. Toby and I were falling asleep on our feet so we came in after 15 minutes, but they’re doing…

This is my fren!

My little fishy fren! (Go to blog using link below if the pic doesn’t show up here). Stayed with me, sometimes this close, for a good half hour at least, as calculated using the metadata on the various pictures of it I tried to take. Also my mask is fogging up. We forgot to buy…

I made a friend

A little fishy friend, who spent 30 minutes hanging around me while I snorkeled today. I have oh so many pictures, but they’ll (well, the best ones) have to wait until I can get them web-sized. I also took a picture of a turtle butt while we were on an eco-lagoon tour in a glass-bottomed…

WHOA

GUYS OUR STATEROOM HAS A TUB. And when I get the netbook out and connected I’ll change the default tag to JoCo2019 instead of our Europe trip tag.

Huh

Our flight landed 20 minutes early. One of the passengers near us had a medical emergency-possibly a heart attack–and the captain obviously received permission to punch it and get priority landing. The touchdown and subsequent braking was the hardest I’ve ever experienced. The paramedics came on board and wheeled him out and the area of…

Grand Cayman Snorkeling

Last time we took a cruise that was supposed to stop at Grand Cayman, the weather was against us. The seas were too high to berth safely at the George Town port, and the other port was full, so we ended up skipping the place. Which was sad, because we really wanted to do something…

Snorkeling and sunburn

Today’s stop was Cozumel. We booked a private snorkel tour with Cozumel H2O, by which we got a boat and a private guide to take us to 4 different reefs to snorkel. I am not a strong swimmer, and the guide was perfectly happy to tie a floatie around my waist and have me hold…

Back up!

I took the site down accidentally by having the temerity to want to update some WordPress pluging, which b0rked the site. I ended up having to delete the plugins in question to get it back. Anyway! The reason this blog is coming back to life is that we are now on a cruise. 🙂 We…