It is always exciting to find new discoveries in places you’ve visited before. As Matt mentioned, we tried to anchor off a new reef in Tobago Keys but the wind and seas did not cooperate. It’s not like we were disappointed as there were so few boats in the keys that we were still able to secure a prime spot with no obstructed views. We snorkeled to a new place on the reef and to our huge surprise we saw a little over a dozen sting rays. They are so majestic as they swim, a little daunting when they are buried up to their eyeballs (as their eyes and long tail are the only thing sticking out of the sand), and fun to watch. Most had a 4-5′ wing span and almost all of them had one to two box face puffers hanging around them. That was the other fabulous sighting – the box face puffers (you know how I love my puffers). We spotted several schools of exotic fish and a lobster. Since we were all wrinkly, we headed back to the boat and motor sailed to Union island

Chatham Bay, An old favorite of ours as you’ve read from previous posts. We have several local friends here, King who used to work at the resort and Vanessa and Suki who feed us family style local cuisine from their beach shack. Once anchored, we dove in and went snorkeling to see if we could see the hordes of squid that wes saw last time. Unfortunately not many squid, but lots of other fish, more puffers and some pretty reefs.

A new friend came over from the local “resort” by the name of Din Din. I put resort in air quotes as they have one completed cabin, a restaraunt and bar. We’ve been visiting King at the resort’s bar for years, but they changed management and now it is run by Lisa, her brother, Din Din, and their cousin Kathryn. Drinks and some wifi along with funny razzing on Wayne’s apparent need for a girlfriend by Kathryn and we headed back to the boat.

Vanessa had found us snorkeling at the reef earlier this morning so we ordered dinner from her and told her we’d see her at 6. Normally, Vanessa’s place is a little more lively but this evening was pretty mellow, although the food great as usual. We had Mahi and conk along with local potatoes, rice, fried plantains, beverages, salad and homemade rum cake! We left over stuffed>