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 ABOUTfeatured: 30 Best Snorkeling Blogs Fun Ways to enjoy the caribbeanOLDER POST:Little Yellow Butterfly Hiding from the RainNEWER POST:Double Dolphin Tailwalk at Dolphin AcademyNov 19, 09 Comments Off
 Seahorse Good evening folks, what a busy day!! After getting up at 4:45 and sending out the daily mail I took Aimee and the dogs via the car and dropped them off at the salt ponds and they walked five miles back to the house thru the desert. After dropping them off I drove to the entrance of the new Hyatt Regency and met with a man named Richard who is the designer/architect of the new 350 room Hyatt Regency that is currently underway and being built. We jumped in his car and off we went on a fun morning of getting to see this new project up close and personal. We first went to a big mountain where we parked and took off by foot on a freshly made “Curacao style hiking trail”, meaning it was wide enough to drive a truck up. The view on this mountain was spectacular, you could see for miles in every direction! At the top of the mountain the trail ended and this is where I may come in, they want the trail finished. The goal is to start now where the trail left off and take the hikers to some caves and then back to where we started, kind of a big loop. Richard who claims he is in his 70′s walked so fast up the trail I could hardly keep up, this guy is in great shape! Besides the trail on the mountain he also showed me other areas in need of nature trails as well but first we need to get some aerial shots if possible to get a better idea of where to put in trail. On the way out I had my photo taken for a security pass card that needs to worn at all times and by 10:30 I was back at home.
At home I quickly put the underwater camera together and loaded my dive gear and off we went both Aimee and I to Penn Resort to place some buoy markers out in the ocean. Aimee stayed on shore holding one end of a 100 meter line and I was at the other end in the water. I swam out first 40 meters from shore and placed an underwater maker, then one at 50, and another at 60. The owners of the resort want a visual to see what distance looks the best from shore for a new proposed breakwater. For those of you asking what a breakwater is, that’s when you place big boulders out in the water to help protect the resort you are building and to give your guests a calm swimming area without having to worry about the pounding waves. Does that make any sense? After placing the buoys I swam back to shore and this time Aimee handed me the camera. While here I wanted to get some better shots of that strange sponge we found here on the last trip, it was still there and looked great.
I think we got home around 1:00, I then got my broken Mac and took it to a friend who is going to see what he can do? While out I also went in search of some new trail building tools, gloves and surveying tape. Next on my list I drove all the way back out to the new Hyatt Regency and picked up my new pass just in case I go out there on Sunday to start trail building. I finished my two hour drive with a stop at the grocery store and finally back home where it feels like I went non-stop all day!
Your seahorse was found on the Superior Producer the other night, in fact we saw two, they were both together but very hard to photograph.
That’s my crazy day, time for dinner, till tomorrow, Barry
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