Aquarium Reef – By Sally

Hi from Sally. I’m going to tell you about our awesome visit to the ‘Sea Aquarium’ snorkeling reef at O’Briens Cay in the Exumas Land and Sea Park. As we got our snorkel stuff on, I was thinking, this seriously can’t be like an aquarium right? Turns out I was totally wrong…

When I hopped in the water, a million fish instantly surrounded me—crazy right! As I started swimming, my hand brushed against a beautiful black and white zebra fish (Sergeant Major is the real name).  They were close all around us! Dozens of teal, green, blue and yellow parrot fish swam by and I knew I’d never been snorkeling anywhere this cool before! As I was hopping out, something big swimming below caught my eye. I then continued to get in the dinghy—which is really hard with flippers if you don’t know how to flip in! Luckily I do! When I got in the dinghy, I heard mom say “guys, guys—sea turtle”.  You don’t know how much my family gets exited about sea turtles! Everyone jumped out of the dinghy at the same time! Below, three sea turtles went swimming by in the ocean current and we swam behind them following along! Mom told us that one of these sea turtles had waved to her, too!

Our next adventure was to Rocky Dundas that legend has it were sacred sites for the Lucayans.  The caves feature both stalactite and stalagmite formations and you have to time your visit with low tide and calm waters so you can get into them more easily.  They look like pretty, cool snorkeling caves.

-💕Sally💕