It was great to see a bunch of you yesterday at my mom´s birthday party via the webcam! And lovely to hear of course, that you´re enjoying the blog! It´s always lovely to know people actually read this thing...
I can´t believe I´ve only got a month left! I´ll be home four weeks from tomorrow! Looking forward to seeing so many friends and family I´ve missed so much, and yet also looking forward to the remaining time I have here. It´s an odd yet wonderful combination to look at your past, present and future, and be happy about every part of it. I´ve had a wonderful time here, am enjoying every moment, and also can´t wait for what the next four weeks, and the next four months have in store for me. I choose it all! (Thanks JT, for helping me to realize what a gift it is to be able to recognize my choices, and actively choose my paths!)
This week has been particularly wonderful, due to the fact that every single day the weather has been such that I´ve gotten in both of my scheduled dives, bringing my total dive number up to 32! Only 28 more to go...
Speaking of diving, I saw a spotted eagle ray this week, a good 1.4 meters across! A rare and special sighting here at Pez Maya. On the same dive, we also saw a teeny seahorse! It´s absolutey a marvel to see something so....different!...swim around. It´s whole swimming mechanism and body shape is just so unique among the creatures I´ve seen. All in all it was one and a half inches of pure adorableness.
The hurricane left us largely untouched, except for one rather large thing....we have a lagoon system right next to our beach, that closed up nearly a year ago. When we first arrived, there was a sandbar straight across the lagoon exit, which wasn´t so great for the fish, because they often go into the lagoon to lay their eggs, because it´s a more sheltered area for the eggs to hatch. However, after the hurricane, (which highly affected the tide levels for a few days before and after) the lagoon exit opened up, sending tons and tons of freshwater gushing out, into our beach area. What was once crystaline and turquoise is now brackish and murky--a lovely ice tea colored stream that is also colder than seawater. It only takes 10 or 20 meters for the water to return to it´s lovely caribbean color, but it´s still made beach swimming slightly less enjoyable, which is unfortuantely for us, but probably a lot better for the fish. Ah well. Oh, another small thing the hurricane changed.....we are INUNDATED with mosquitos! It was highly manageable before, but now, you can´t take a shower without getting 30 more bites! I literally counted over 100 new bites in a single day. I´m hoping for a tiny increase in wind, and some continued drier and cooler weather to help ward them away again. Otherwise, I might go over the edge. 20 bites on my forehead alone is just not acceptable. The madness must end. Please? Sigh.
My camera is now working! But I haven´t had much of a chance to take more pictures yet, and the computer I´m on doesn´t have a working CD drive, so you´ll unfortunately have to wait one more week for any pictures, but I PROMISE! Next week will have a plethora of lovely pictures to make up for so many weeks without any. So please forgive me, and tune in next weekend for a much more colorful entry! Until then...buenas noches!
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