Vacation, Part 2

On Wednesday, Matt, Sherry, Brooklyn, Cole, Yolanda, and I woke up early and headed to meet up with our fishing guide for the day. 

Brooklyn is ready to go!  Cole being silly as always. 

The fun begins.  Gotta catch some bait! 

First catch of the day.   A baby shark.

 

Brooklyn’s catch of the day.

Cole reeling his big shark in!  :-)

He didn’t want any part of touching it, so our guide held it for him. 

Sherry’s turn…

Yolanda had the biggest fish and the longest fight with the reel.  Our guide said probably about a 50 pound “brownie”.  But, her fish somehow got off.  We were all sad! 

This is what was on the line when she got it in.  I am guessing the big fish had a hold of this one?  This is called a toad fish.

I actually never touched a rod.  We kind of had some bad luck getting our bigger fish in.  As you can tell, we caught a lot of sharks.  But, we saw several dolphins a lot of HUGE sea turtles!   Brooklyn actually had a sea turtle on the line that got off.  We really wanted to get him reeled in so we could get a good picture of him, but he got off.  Our guide was not real happy having a sea turtle on the line.  I am pretty sure people are quite protective of them.   It is hard to tell in the picture how big he really is, but our guide said they get about as big as the top of a VW beetle. 

We had such a fun time though! 

Jeff, Corene, Mark, and Hayden did some exploring around the island while we were off fishing. 

That night, we went on the Dolphin cruise.  It was about a 1 1/2 hour long boat ride.  We did see several dolphins, an awesome rainbow, and some very large homes! 

Just a weekend home with a guest house on the side.  I actually think our boat captain said that these people only come 4-5 times a year.  Goodness, me. 

Hayden was super excited about driving under the bridge you see in the picture above. 

After we got through with our cruise, we headed to South Beach to the famous Salty Dog area.

Isn’t it neat looking?  We ate at “The Wreck”. It was kind of expensive, but pretty good!

Then, we followed up with some ice cream! 

Before we left Hayden needed his hands painted. 

Wednesday was a super fun day! 

One more post and I think I’ll be done with vacation!  :-)