Cozumel 2012 - On Land

As amazing as the ocean is....the topside isn't too bad either.  Below are a few of the highlights!

How about those snappers?!

Roger

Pepe

Triathlete

Lemonade

Cozumel 2012 - Day 7

What a treat this day turned out to be!!  We woke up early and decided  to wing over to the other side of the island to see if we could catch some other birds.  Wow - Heron city!  If you want to see more - check out www.cherylawarren.com/index.htm.

Then we got quickly got ready to dive and headed to the pier.  We splashed in and started our dive....all of the sudden there was a pack of 7 - YES 7!!!!!  Black tip reef sharks.  They were swimming fast and whipping around to see us as we swam to see them.  OMG - was that exciting!!

After they took off we were just catching our breath when two eagle rays came along.  They were curious and hung out with us for about 5 minutes!  WOW!!!  That was amazing!!  And then there was a free swimming nurse shark.  That is a rare site indeed because usually they are curled up sleeping under a ledge.  He swam right between John and I.

We think it was Cozumel's way of saying - glad you came and see you next year!  Spectacular!!

black tip reef shark

Eagle Ray - see his mouth?

Nurse Shark coming!!  See Cheri in the corner?

Nurse Shark

Whites Pond, Concord - May 28th part 2

Whites Pond

Feeding young very quickly!

look at my legs!  Yummy!

Ribbit

Heron with their young

Blue Bird

Muskrat

Starling with a snack for her young

The best days nearly always come in half days.  This one was no exception.  After a very successful owl hunt, we came home to work out where "Whites Pond" was located.  We got a fix, packed some more gear and a lunch and headed out.  We found it, got one of the 3 parking spaces and walked in.  We weren't there 3 minutes and the heavens opened.  Luckily John had the foresight to bring an umbrella.

We weren't daunted though.  We came back a few hours later to sunshine and had a marvelous hunt!  Here are a few of the images.

Enjoy!

Cheri & John