It really is tough having to wait out “weather” behind an island like this. It was overcast with occasional squalls this morning, so I baked bread (sandwich bread is one thing we cannot get down here – Kuna bread is great tasting, but more sized like rolls than bread) and Deb made rice pudding. I pulled the air cleaner off the hookah and replaced the rusted out pin that operates the choke in anticipation of using it today. I had to drill out the old one, find a suitable sized replacement, bend it to fit, etc., but it works fine now. I had finished Lizza's novel so went back to “The Satanic Verses” - not bad company, Lizza! As usual, by noon we were getting more and more sunny patches, so we loaded hookah in the dinghy and went to shore. Hookah started on the first pull with the choke fixed. We launched from shore and saw out against a mild current. Even having snorkeled the area yesterday, I was not prepared for the underwater beauty we found. Coral gardens with every imaginable type of coral mixed in spread out in a gently sloping array from breaking to ~15' and then a wall, equally amazing, dropped another 10-15'. We saw some of the healthiest elkhorn and staghorn coral we have seen this trip. I ran into my friend the trigger fish from yesterday, we found a nurse shark snuggled into the sand in a cave. A large grouper took off when he saw us coming (probably why he got to be that large!) so we never got close to him. We saw several small lobster, but let them be other than tickling their antennae just to frighten them. Great variety of reef fish including a whole 'school' (I'm not sure they really are a schooling fish.) of what Deb originally thought were midnight parrotfish (very rare), but turned out to be unusually large creole wrasses when we looked them up in our book – very colorful with midnight blue body with lighter spots and a yellow/green area on the underside by the tail. The reef system went on to the end of the island and then abruptly turnded into just old dead reef as it extended towards the cut between islands. This seems very strange as usually the sides of cuts are the healthiest due to all the nutrients that rush through the cut. We didn't want to get into the current coming through the cut (it's still blowing 20-25) and it was boring anyway, so we turned back and crisscrossed over the coral going from breaking down to the wall and back as we slowly wended our way back to the beach. It was so beautiful I think we may have to do it again tomorrow. It was clouding up again by the time we got back to the boat, but we got our dive in the sun and we had enough sun to top up the batteries and run the watermaker so who's complaining? Baked stuffed lobster for dinner, gee this is hard.