Swimming at the Moon Hole on Virgin Gorda

Found a few more pictures from my long snorkel trying to shoot the divers yesterday morning on Salt. This is a tiny little Thimble jelly fish of some sort in the middle of the picture. Salt often gets a lot of jelly fish...Not sure if it was a stinging one or not, but I dodged a lot...

This is the beach (and my fins!) where I hung out on the east end of the island. Been here a couple times before, it is just a tiny little beach, but so pretty...

Great colors there...

Looking up at Man Head Point...

I was up in time this morning to get some snap shots of the guys in there "good go to town" swimsuits for the swim....



At least Brent has not stole any of them yet! It was a big morning though, even Brent was up and swimming with the swimmers. He said he had to go at full speed the entire time to keep up!

After breakfast the next activity was taking a swim to the Moon Hole (or the Toilet Bowl!)

I had not realized how damn far I had to cart my camera under water to get there to get there. I have had more exercise this week then I have had for a looonnnngggg time. However, it was well worth it, and I enjoyed taking the pictures there very much...

This is a funky monofin that Hopper had brought down, i would hate it and feel like it was binding me in about 3 seconds...

While they all took turns catching there breath and swimming under the coral into the moon pool, I laid on my back on the bottom and was washed back and forth like a toilet bowl taking pictures. Clunk! Went the tank, Clunk went the strobes!

Yep, I know, like always I can never figure out which picture I like best so end up putting up a hundred or so!





Love this one of Tracy power swimming under the coral. Traci is training for a triathalon, after deciding that a new direction in life was definitely in order. She starting a blog about this process, and how scary it is at http://www.traciwilson.wordpress.com/
She has also been blogging about her trip!



This is probably my favorite, Hopper looks to me a bit like the Grinch who stole Xmas!

And the guys just hanging out in the pool...

I have had complaints for former female guests that I am not putting up enough eye candy pictures of Simeon! So, just to make you all happy, here are a couple to start your day... (I will rent him out!)



On my way back to the boat I went out in the sand, and obviously there was more current then i realized, when I started seeing pinnacles I have never seen before at Mountain Point, and schools of Amberjack...it was a bad sign! Ending up having to swim a long way back to the boat, after I could not get my safety sausage to inflate, nor did flashing my strobes do any good.... A good lesson remembered, especially since i had no snorkel and had to do a surface swim. Yes, I called myself and idiot!

It was off for a sail to the Dogs, and lunch...

It was a tough swim against the current around the island from the chimneys... but they perservered...

And the first one to the beach was victorious! By the way I understand that they were playing with an octopus who was just in the waves!

While they Swam, Simeon and i kept watch...



A few more pics, a spinnaker run down to Marina Cay to see Beans Happy aaarrr and that is all the story you are getting tonight!