Oooo, Barracuda
11 Sep 2006 08:13 pmI'm back from my birthday adventure! I'm am now much more familiar with Grande Terre. Julien rented a car (ours won't be here until the end of this week or the beginning of the next), and we drove around the southern half of the island. We had a destination in mind, though I didn't know it. Not long after we left Mamoudzou, I saw my first makis. ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
kmkibble, I'm not sure they will be a worthy guard. They fled as soon as Julien got the camera out. At N'gouja, we went snorkeling with sea turtles. The other day, I was very tame with my estimate of the turtle we saw from the boat. Yesterday, I was able to measure one in the water and it was easily three foot across (the shell) and five foot long, and I don't think it was as big as the one I saw from the boat. Unfortunately, we didn't see any turtles laying eggs (that sounds funny. Is it the right term?), but we aren't moving away anytime soon.
We had a lovely supper: lots of fish (of course), banana flowers, and crème brulée perfumed with ylang-ylang, among other things.
This morning we went diving, and I had a funny feeling that sharks were going to be au rendez vous. And would you believe it? One was! A hammerhead. BUT, we didn't see it. A man in the other group did. *pout* Oh well, dolphins did jump out of the water to wish me a happy birthday, so I'm content. Yeah, let me believe the show was for me, okay? The visibility was excellent, and I saw my first school of barracuda. I saw another Napolean, more eels, lots of lionfish, and a cute little black trunkfish, not to mention another lyretail hogfish, which was definitely a hogfish. Oh yeah, I saw a "poisson feu" and a trumpet fish, too. When we got back to the hotel, I went snorkeling in the bay and saw a ray, an octopus, a porcupine fish, more turles, a yellow trunkfish. And the list goes on!
bkdunn, thanks for the birthday wishes (LJ is correct.) The pics are going to have to wait until I have a program to resize photos.
And now I must go. The mosquitos are attacking.
kmkibble, I'm not sure they will be a worthy guard. They fled as soon as Julien got the camera out. At N'gouja, we went snorkeling with sea turtles. The other day, I was very tame with my estimate of the turtle we saw from the boat. Yesterday, I was able to measure one in the water and it was easily three foot across (the shell) and five foot long, and I don't think it was as big as the one I saw from the boat. Unfortunately, we didn't see any turtles laying eggs (that sounds funny. Is it the right term?), but we aren't moving away anytime soon.We had a lovely supper: lots of fish (of course), banana flowers, and crème brulée perfumed with ylang-ylang, among other things.
This morning we went diving, and I had a funny feeling that sharks were going to be au rendez vous. And would you believe it? One was! A hammerhead. BUT, we didn't see it. A man in the other group did. *pout* Oh well, dolphins did jump out of the water to wish me a happy birthday, so I'm content. Yeah, let me believe the show was for me, okay? The visibility was excellent, and I saw my first school of barracuda. I saw another Napolean, more eels, lots of lionfish, and a cute little black trunkfish, not to mention another lyretail hogfish, which was definitely a hogfish. Oh yeah, I saw a "poisson feu" and a trumpet fish, too. When we got back to the hotel, I went snorkeling in the bay and saw a ray, an octopus, a porcupine fish, more turles, a yellow trunkfish. And the list goes on!
bkdunn, thanks for the birthday wishes (LJ is correct.) The pics are going to have to wait until I have a program to resize photos.And now I must go. The mosquitos are attacking.