We’ve anchored for the day in the SW corner of Isla Parida ready for a 3am start for Golfito. This is a very pleasant little bay with a few beaches and clear waters. We all went out for a snorkel shortly after arriving. Helen high tailed it back to the boat when she thought she saw something wiggly. Coming into Boca Chica she saw a couple of the sea snakes around here and is getting more and more put off. John and I ended up on one of the beaches where there was a small but deep streamlet just begging to be dammed.
We’ve just been for another snorkel in the bay. This time I left my speargun in the dinghy just to see if this we mean I would see a lobster. I did!!! So I left John marking the place and swam back to the dinghy to fetch the speargun all the while reckoning the thing would have buggered off by the time I returned. Upon getting back to John I prepared the gun, dove down, found the lobster, took aim and pulled the trigger. I’d left the safety on so I turned it off took aim again and fired. This time the lobster exploded into fragments of shell and not a lot else. Turned out it was a long dead lobster and all the insides must have been eaten away. All that was left was it’s intact but fragile shell. Oh well. What we do for excitement.
As I said we’ll be off in the morning. The forecasts call for more next to nothing winds which means we may have to motor all the way to Golfito. Hope we don’t but it’s likely. Maybe we’ll get a land breeze in the morning off the peninsular that’ll allow us to sail for the first time in a while.
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