Happily singing the blues - dan
We’re still hanging out in this azure wilderness, blessed out on blue. Every day brings another pallet of amazing color so beautiful that it almost hurts the mind.
We took the dinghy and explored the nearby cays the other day. Rugged, ragged, uninhabited islands except for birds, land crabs and lizards. We stopped at one cay, hiked across the island and walked the beach.
On the way back we decided to snorkel instead of riding in the dink. We dawned our gear and towed the dink behind us as we swam away from the beach into deeper water. I didn’t expect to see much over the shallow sand flats and conch grass; was swimming more for the exercise than the view.
I couldn’t have been more wrong. It was beautiful! Perhaps even more so given its simple clarity, subtle hues, complex light patterns and reflections. We usually only snorkel around reefs and coral heads in order to enjoy the wildlife. What a delightful surprise to see how the bright sandy bottom is reflected off the under-surface of the water and how the electric-blue band in the middle depths seems to stretch off into infinity.
