Wed, 27 Jan

Wed, 27 Jan i set up a possible dive for this morning with Belize Diving Adventures. i took the 8:20am water taxi to San Pedro. it was a nice morning ... when we left, ... 10min into the ride, it started pouring rain :( it was still sprinkling in San Pedro when i got there, so i walked along the beach to the dive shop. no one else had signed up to dive that day, and they need a minimum of 2 people, so i hung around the dive shop in case someone came in and wanted to dive. but no one ever did. i was 'entertained' by Darrel, from the dive shop. he took a fishing pole and we went out to the pier. he caught a small red snapper ... it's a pretty fish, as well as a great tasting one! he caught another small fish and was pulling it in, when out from under the pier shoots a big barracuda and grabbed the fish. it was pretty exciting for awhile; it even broke the surface of the water! but the barracuda kept biting the fish and never got the hook in it's mouth .... so he got away. for while it was looking like i was going to have another chance to taste barracuda, but not this time :( after the barracuda left, the 'clean-up-crew' arrived to finish off any bits and pieces of fish that were left in the water. clean-up-crew translates to 2 large stingrays. they swam around for 15min or so, then left. this is a picture of the stingrays ... kind of hard to see