Back to HSH we head. We eat some fruit for breakfast, a mango and the soursop. If you are ok with your fingers getting sticky wet a soursop may be the most sensual and fun fruit you can ever share with your lover. I’m just going to leave it at that. The flavor is creamy and sweet with just a slight pineapple-citrus finish. I love them.
We prep for the water. We have SPF water shirts but we slather on the sunblock on our necks, ears, calves and my scalp. We’re going to snorkel today. Down to the sea deck we go. Sweetie Pie, with one hand on the sea ladder, attempts to lean over and wet her mask. I see more injuries in her future and pull her back. I show her the safe way to enter the water with fins, mask and a sea ladder. One foot on the ladder toes pointing out to sea, swing the other foot over and on, step down until you can sit on a ladder step. Hold you’re mask down, don’t reach for the water, wait for a wave to come up to your mask. Big loogie (I have to do this for her)wipe, rinse, smush the mask on your face, breath in through your nose to pull it tight.
Soon we’re in the water and heading east along the cliffs. There are lots of small coral and boulder canyons running in this direction, great for snorkel diving. I try to show Sweetie Pie how to dive but she just flails at the surface. She has a hard time pulling herself far enough below the surface to get the power from our large scuba flippers to drive her down. It’s cute and funny. She’s not getting it so we move on. I point out a large gar fish and she gets so excited she sucks in water. I can hear this even though I’m submerged. She comes up choking and laughing, a strange combination.
We get down to Blue Horizon West and I point out a sea ladder where we can get out and take a break. I show Sweetie Pie how to get out on a sea ladder, basically entering in reverse. It always feels a little strange to go up a ladder backwards. Unlike the nicely tilted ladder at HSH the Blue Horizon ladder is a little more vertical making it even more peculiar. The shoreline at Blue Horizon is very broken up, from HSH it doesn’t look like more than stairs down to a rough platform with a sea ladder. When you get over there you can see that at one time it was a very nice series of stairs, platforms and perches. Now it has been seriously worn down by the sea and old steel handrails and crumbled concrete dot the shoreline. It’s a very dramatic spot.
There is a young man enjoying a sub in a secluded spot amongst the rocks that we couldn’t see until we were up on the sea deck. We nod and smile at each other. We grab a spot on some steps out of his view and chill for a while. It is a very nice spot. We gear up and head back out but Sweetie Pie notices a plastic bottle floating in the water and it irritates her. Once in the water she tracks it down then heads back toward the sea deck to throw it out. Her first throw is unsuccessful so she recaptures the rogue bottle and gets closer to throw it out. The bottle makes it out but I hear Sweetie Pie say,”Oh, ouch, dammit!” I wish this was the first time I had heard those words from Sweetie Pie.
