December 27 – South end of Island tour

I woke up this morning with a bad case of “swimmers ear”; I couldn’t hear out of the right ear, and every so often I had a sharp pain. As a result I had no burning desire to get in the water today. In the morning we did some shopping; first for a replacement wireless card for my computer, and then for groceries at the Warehouse. After lunch back at our unit we headed out to the south end of the island for some snorkeling and sight seeing.

Our first stop was at a site called Angel City, where Trudy, Erin, and Scott went for a snorkel. Trudy returned after about 30 minutes, and Erin and Scott returned about an hour later. We moved a little further south to a location called The Invisibles. This time I said I wanted to go for a short snorkel, mostly to get cooled off, but also to see how my ear would react. By this time it was almost cleared, but still not perfect. I went in and did a shallow dive; I was able to equalize my ears, so I was very happy. After this snorkel we continued to travel south, doing a big loop around the bottom of the island, and ending up at Lac Bay. Along the way we passed both sets of slave huts, and saw a very large flock of flamingos. After getting cleaned up Trudy and I went out for dinner at “It Rains Fishes” and of course I had a steak, which was excellent, while Trudy enjoyed the catch of the day being “Wahoo”. Erin and Scott enjoyed leftovers. After dinner Trudy and I went to the Internet Café and got my new wireless card working. A few emails were sent, but no web updates were done.



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