Bud went fishing again this morning, but didn't catch anything. After lunch we took our snorkel gear and dinghied to the beach and walked across the peninsula to the next little bay. I'll put a photo in the gallery that shows how close it is, you can see Earendil's mast sticking up over the peninsula. We rigged up a little patch of shade for Fuzzy with towels and some driftwood posts that someone else had made into a teepee frame. I sat down on a washed up jerry can and Bud tried snorkeling. Again there were no fish. I went in for a bit of a swim, just to cool down, then we walked down the beach a ways. We came to an area with a rock wall and a bit of a beach. I'll put a photo of Bud on that beach in the gallery. Bud spied some strange looking animals on the wall. I came down and took the photo that I will add to this entry. They look like giant trilobites. They were in niches in the rock wall, about waist high, so pretty close to the high tide line. I tried to find them in our reef identification guide, but could not.

Fuzzy was getting pretty hot, so we walked back and came back to the boat. Bud took off in the dinghy for a second round of fishing. He got back close to supper time and I didn't even ask if he'd caught anything. As I was helping him tie the dinghy to the boat, I looked down and saw that he actually had a good sized fish in the dinghy. We think it's a Jack or an Amberjack, but definitely not a Big Eye or Horse Eye Jack, so Bud filleted it and we are going to eat it. Bud dumped the fish carcass into the water and within a couple of minutes there were two rays and a shark there to get the fish scraps! The bigger of the rays was well over 3 feet across and black. The other one was about 18 inches across and blue-grey. There were also a lot of smaller fish swimming around on the bottom. It's the most fish we've seen since we got here. A really big shark swam past the stern of the boat a bit later. This one was better than 4 feet long. Makes me a bit nervous to think we both went swimming off the boat. Obviously these sharks are not interested in people, just in what we might throw out to them.