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 ABOUTfeatured: 30 Best Snorkeling Blogs Fun Ways to enjoy the caribbeanDec 22, 09 Comments Off
 Black and White Nerite Snails Good evening. I just got reminded that I was supposed to be sending a different snail photo out each week until I ran out of ones to find! Well if you remember a few weeks back I sent you a photo of a bunch of red nerite snails on a rock, these are what I call the black and white nerite snails. Today because the ocean was so rough these snails were in great abundance on top of every single rock that was above the water line. And when I say above the water line I mean just inches above it but still getting covered by water with each in-coming wave. I didn’t touch these at all or arrange them in any way this is how they are found, they just hold tight to the rocks. These snails know that when waves are passing over they are to stay put, it’s like they say, “curiosity killed the snail”!
I had a very busy day today!! I first took the dogs to the ocean where I took your snail photo and we ended up hiking around there for around two and a half hours. I found another snail that is along the shores by the millions but they are so tiny and very dark, none of the pictures I took seemed to get me very excited but I will keep trying!! After I got home I took off for hours of grocery shopping! All the stores here will be closed the 25th and 26th so I am stocking up now! Here in Curacao you have to go to two or three different stores to get what you need, it’s really frustrating! So today I went to three different ones which killed around three hours and three hundred guilders!!
At around 2:00 I got a call from Mark from the World famous Dive Bus Hut and he said, “you need to come down here as soon as you can, we have a present for you”. Well I don’t know many folks that can resist that kind of an invitation so I quickly ate my lunch and took off to see what goodies awaited? When I got there Suzy handed me this very big wrapped present, it was around 20 by 27 inches!! Instantly I could tell from years of wrapping stuff that it was something in a frame?? She said either wait till Christmas or open it now, did she just say open it now?? That’s the only thing my brain heard anyways!! I shredded that thing so fast and was speechless at what I saw. Stay tuned tomorrow and I’ll tell you the rest of the story!! Just kidding! It was from a man I only met once named Jim Jorgensen, he was the other diver with Mark who jumped out of the helicopter with all their dive gear on. Remember that photo?? Well this guy sent Mark and I both the most beautiful framed picture, it has the original Scuba Diver Magazine cover at the top left then two other photos on the right of Mark and Jim in the helicopter and below the original two page spread of both of them jumping out of the helicopter with a beautiful black plaque at the bottom, it’s unreal!! I will send you all a photo! Once again my faith in the human race is restored, what a gift, thank you so much Jim if your reading this that was over the top!!!
I did a quick one hour bike ride with a friend this evening it was fun but man oh man was it ever windy! We had the biggest waves of the year today, it looked like mini-Omar was here for a visit! That’s it for my day, Aimee went out to eat with friends but is bringing me ribs back soon. Be back tomorrow, Barry
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