Crab Cay Spuddle

Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Mon 4 Apr 2011 21:29
Our Crab Cay Spuddle
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
We were moving on today but there are white caps on the water just outside the anchorage. The squalls are constant and whilst only about twenty knots, will make it a bit dodgy to pick our way through the reef, seas outside are forecast to be lumpy, so we will go tomorrow. Off we went in Baby Beez to explore this huge area. Just around the rocks behind Beez is another vast area with nothing but the occasional blade of grass. Enough it seems for the many little turtles we've seen shooting past.
 
 
 
 
 
We went past many huge starfish, some slightly fatter than others and mostly really dark red like these chaps
 
 
 
 
Then I spotted this humungous lad
 
 
 
 
Bear hopped off Baby Beez in the warm shallows for a photo opportunity
 
 
 
 
In many ways his bottom was more impressive than his top side
 
 
 
 
 
Bear put him back and he immediately surfaced. Confused we watched
 
 
 
 
 
We sat for a few minutes until we saw him expel a load of bubbles, watched him sink onto two 'back' legs and slowly curl until flat. We went back to him a while later and all was well
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
A nice tradition on one of the tiny beaches here, is marking and leaving a conch shell - had we have known........ I had a tiny chap
 
 
 
 
The edge of our tiny beach was one of the drying reef entrances (not for Beez Neez). We snorkeled there, the water was so cold and the current amazing
 
 
 
 
 
ALL IN ALL A LOVELY DAY
                     AMAZING TO HOLD SUCH A KNOBBLY, STIFF CHAP AND SO BIG...
                      I MAKE ABSOLUTELY NO COMMENT AT THIS POINT - BUT MY EYEBROWS ARE RAISED
 
 
 
 
 
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