Vacation: Day Three

First of all...I forgot to tell yall that on Day Two when we were at the beach, I spotted some guy with a professional camera taking pictures.  At first I thought he was taking them of his kids, because he was there with his wife and kids and another couple and their kids (yes, I'm nosey).  Anyway, I started watching him closer and realized he wasn't taking pictures of his kids but of women's butts.  I was like "You pervert!"  I told Lesli to look at him and see if she saw what I was seeing and sure enough she did.  I then told Kent and he was also seeing the same thing.  What was so sick about it was that most of the girls he was takings pictures of had to be no older than 16.  It was just sick!

On to day three....  We got up bright and early and got ready to rent our boat.  We left the room at like 7:15ish in the morning and stopped and got some ice for the cooler and headed on our way to the boat rental place.  We got there and signed all the papers and were on our way.  Kent and Jared had the map of how to get us to Shell Island.  So, we thought we would be there in no time....hahaha.  We "THOUGHT" we were in the right place to go diving for sand dollars.  Well, the water was REAL clear and we could tell we were getting into shallow water.  The water had a lot of "grass" or seaweed not too sure what it was, growing on the bottom.  There was no telling what was living in there.  Well, all of a sudden we hear this HORRIBLE noise and realize we bottomed the boat out.  The motor dies and we were all suck in this little cove.  We look around and see jellyfish everywhere and the only way to really get us out of there is to get in the water and push the boat to deeper water.  Well, Kent and Jared didn't want to touch the "grass" or whatever it was but finally sucked it up and got in.  Thankfully we got out of there and the motor started back.  We went on our way and finally found a good spot to dock.  Just over some sand dunes was the ocean so we all went over there and played for a bit then headed back to the boat to eat and them snorkle in the bay side of Shell Island.  Kent and Jared saw a blowfish and took a picture of it and we also saw some sting rays.  Well, we decided we would start heading back and stop at what is called the "kiddie pool" of Shell Island.  It's where you can walk out into the water for like 50 yards and the water never gets above your chest.  It was SO beautiful there and the water was crystal blue.  We swam there for a bit and took some pictures.  On our way back to the boat rental place we saw some dolphins.  One big dolphin came right up to the boat and poked his head up for us.  He even opened his mouth and showed us his teeth.  It was so cool being so close to a dolphin like that.  He got bored with us and swam away.  We took the boat back to the rental place and headed back to the hotel room.  Lesli and Jared went back to the beach and Kent took a nap.  I sat out on the balcony and "people watched".  We all then took showers and headed out for the night.  We went and ate at Captain Anderson's.  GREAT FOOD!  Exspensive but good!  You can even go at like 4:00pm and watch them bring in the "haul" for the day.  They have a fresh fish market and tons more to do while you wait to be seated.  After supper we went and played putt-putt golf.  Jared and Kent tied for 1st and then Lesli came in next and I was in last place.  It was OK...we had fun.  We then went and played at an arcade.  Kent and Jared road a virtual roller coaster.  I got some pictures of them.  When they were done and they opened the thing back up Kent looked "freaked out".  He had broken out into a sweat and everything.  He was just too funny!  Kent and Jared then went and road go carts while Lesli and I talked and waited for them to get through.  After that we wall went home and played some cards and called it a night.  

                                                    to be continued....