Beauty - Above and Below
02 May 2012 | The Pitons, St. Lucia
Heidi/partly sunny, windy
We're at the most gorgeous anchorage so far, between two peaks called The Pitons. It's lush and green with a multitude of palm trees and mango trees. There are so many mangoes that you can easily fill a canvas bag in a few minutes...and they are soo delicious. Last night we had a very yummy mango crisp.
Today we went for a fabulous snorkel. There were perhaps 75 - 100 basket sponges most 2-3 feet tall and 10 - 16" in diameter. It looked like a Mexican pottery store dumped their pots into the sea. Most of these were brown in color however there were also florescent purple and yellow sponges scattered about, and various types of corals.
We saw hundreds if not a thousand fish, all very colorful. One of the more interesting discoveries was a school of cuttlefish or reef squid. The squid just hung out in mid levels of the sea looking like aliens from another planet. They let us get quite close. We also saw a huge blue parrotfish over a foot long, blue tang, yellow and black stripped sergeant majors, blue and yellow damselfish, and schools of grunts, and glassy sleepers. What fun!