Warning: If you don't want to see pictures of paradise, leave now. :-)
The morning started with us sleeping as late as we could, which ended up to be about 8:30! We were down to breakfast by nine and had started a load of laundry in the 'free' washer (or most expensive washer we've ever used, depending on how you look at things). We took the opportunity to wander around the island and explore, taking pictures of the sun, the sand, and the reef.
At 2:30 we met at the nature center for a reef walk. We were thinking it would be a rather small event, but it felt like a significant population of the resort took part. The reef extends out from the island by several hundred feet, before dropping off, and at low tide is in about 6-12 inches of water, which makes exploring it on foot really easy and cool.
During the reef walk we saw and were able to hold critters! We saw a bunch of sea cucumbers and several sea stars including a blue one! We saw and got to touch an epaulette shark and a rather large sea turtle. Amongst all this we saw a bunch of different types and colors of coral, clams with colorful lips and even some colorful worms! I think these are some of my (Mark's) favorite pictures from the trip!
Following the walk we folded laundry, tidied and found the perfect place to watch the end of a wonderful day.
