Friday, Boat Day

We rented a boat. A 21 foot Parker. The kids and I were super excited! SK took us out to the reef that we would have paid to go to through the park.
We went at our own pace. Stopped to check out a seas turtle(the what is that photo of the ocean). We saw flying fish too on the way out to the reef.
SJ's official first saltwater snorkel adventure!
He didn't like it...HE LOVED IT.
I think the midnight parrot fish sealed the deal. It is a huge(seriously as big as SJ) deep blue sparkling fish. Every fish from his fish identification chart was there...swimming around. I loved to hear him try to yell out the various fish he spotted through his snorkel. It sounded a little mumbled, "AAAAAMARRAWHODA!!" A barracuda...he was slightly disappointed not seeing a shark. I was fine with it!
Sophia was an old veteran. She jumped in first and started yelling out names too! Love it. She did really well keeping close, but not on top of us.
An amazing world down there.