The day after we said good-bye to Matt, Marg, Tim, and Gail, we noticed strings of comb jelly like organisms floating in the crystal clear water; they were all around the boat. My mom had a great idea that we would look at them under a microscope that she had just got to use for science class. I used a bucket to scoop up a large number of them. After studying them for a while we concluded that they were fish eggs! Roan and I where then told to make a school report on our findings.

While Roan and I were doing school my dad was getting ready to go into the water with a cool breathing apparatus (There was a pump at one end that pumped air down a tube which ended in a mouth piece whenever someone took a breath in the other end) to do something with the starboard prop that included taking it apart under water. By the time he was done getting ready and had hopped in Roan and I were almost done with our schoolwork.

Schoolwork finished, I ran to my berth changed into my togs and swim shirt, put on my fins and snorkel and got into the water with Roan just behind me in his wet suit. It was breathtaking underwater; a large school of small fish was hanging around the back of the boat, it was only 10 feet deep at high tide so we could see the bottom quite well. There were spider crabs scattered over the bottom. It was really cool to swim through the clouds of fish eggs seeing the bottom, fish etc. My mom passed me a camera that can work up to 3 meters of depth for a length of 2 consecutive hours. I took a lot of photos switching of with Roan. After a little bit we went up to the bow of the boat looking around while we went. When we got there (it only took us about 1 minute going slowly) we noticed that the bridle had fallen off. Roan told me that we should go look at the anchor, and he promptly took off. We went to the anchor taking a scenic tour as we went, as we got up to the anchor we entered an area were there were many more spider crabs. Near the anchor I noticed that a metal bowl was directly on top of the anchor chain! When we got to the anchor. Roan fooled around a bit with and around the anchor (see photo above) while I looked at the local wild life. When we got back to the boat we told my mom about the bridle having fallen off and she told us to fix it. When everyone was out of the water we downloaded the photos from my camera and looked at the multitude (I had taken an awful lot of pictures).