The only thing I don't like about snorkeling is having to climb back into the dinghy. I have no strength in my arms or I don't have knack of how to do it or whatever it is but the truth is it always ends up with Juan having to pull me in anyway he can and not only is it not a pretty sight but one of these days I could end up with a dislocated shoulder. The steps we have tried to improvise never work because the dinghy is round and they end up underneath and useless.
But while we were on Allan cay we saw a dinghy ladder which Spartina had that juts out and works perfectly.
I thought of ordering one but it would have been a certain hassle to have it delivered here, somewhere and plus and it has to go through customs so we need to send our cruising permits. Also it cost 250 dollars which is not a minor consideration. So ever since I have been bugging Juan for him to build me something similar
Yesterday we arrived in Norman Cay at midday. The weather is not quite settled, there were still a few showers but as soon as the sun came out we went for a walk on the island. Its claim to fame is that it used to belong to a Colombian drug dealer so it has a landing strip, a plane that obviously missed it and is now in the middle of its inner pond and a dump with stuff that used to be in the housing complex. Among all the engines and refrigerators and even another small plane wreck was an aluminun recliner which Juan recognized as the skeleton for my dinghy ladder. And today he went over in the dinghy, sawed off what we didn't need and brought it back. We sanded it and put some padding on the areas it touches the dinghy and on the steps and it worked!!
We went snorkeling by the plane wreck and when Idette and I chickened out when we saw a big barracuda we were able to swim back, climb onto the dinghy and wait for Juan and Mike to return. Then we went exploring in our dinghies. We saw turtles, a nurse shark and tons of conch. At times it was so shallow we had to walk the dinghies. A great day.
The dolphin was yesterday. After our walk as we were dinghying back to our boat we saw a dolphin right in front of us which jumped out of the water with a pirouette. Awesome!!
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