SS Andes
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Sun 10 May 2009 22:53
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Sailing Ship
Andes
Sunday the 10th
of May, Happy Caribbean Mother's Day to all Mum's.
We
got up and decided to swim over to the wreck of the
Andes and snorkel around her. Our very first exploration of a sunken
wreck.
 The plaque
that hangs in the beach bar in Deep Bay.
  The wreck of the Andes is right in the middle of the bay, the centre mast
breaks the surface, she is clearly marked on maps and GPS. Bear under our
favourite house.
 She is incredibly well
preserved.
   Many fish, sponges, urchins and coral
have made her home.
    "A wreck on a wreck" I hear you cry.
Cheek, I couldn't resist standing on the prow like a
real Captain. "Is that Birdseye or Pugwash
?"
We had just arrived on the beach on
Monday, when we started chatting to Nicholas and Kimberley who wanted to snorkel
the Andes, not realising she lay about 300 yards from the beach. Kimberley
settled her mum to a cup of tea in the beach bar and off we went.
  We sat in the
dinghy chatting while the youngsters explored. Kimberley and Nicholas are off to Tortola in the BVI's in a
few days time to run a field based search of some wrecks there. In September
Kimberley is back in Bristol to put the finishing touches to her PhD in Marine
Archaeology, good luck to her, certainly a first for us, meeting someone with
that speciality. Nicholas is a marine engineer. Back to mum - Ann, for a beer
and then bid them farewell to get the steaks on. They laughed when I told them
one of the vegetables was SPROUTS - in the Caribbean.
ALL IN ALL we thoroughly
enjoyed exploring our first wreck.
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