Whales and naps Part 1

Another fun day down here exploring! After a slightly disruptive sleep due to someone who forgot to close the window after drying her hair therefore allowing some bug friends to set up camp while we were at dinner, we were up so very early again and on the road at 5:15am to head to St. Lucia for a 7:30 whale watching ride. After our debacle yesterday morning we wanted to make sure we on time and at the right place. We arrived an hour early so drove through the town and watched the monkeys creating havoc all over. They get into everything but they are so cute!

We got to the tour company place around 6:45 and were told that the 7:30 trip was cancelled due to high surf. There was a 9:30 one that was still on so we booked that one and wasted time looking around the shops and walking on the beach. We saw some hippos in the river! It was a close call but they went ahead with the 9:30 trip. It was the first trip they were able to run in 13 days and the only one that wouldn't be cancelled of the 5 that were scheduled for today. Talk about lucky!

This was another beach launch just with a bigger boat and a crazier captain. The waves were huge when the sets came in so he had to time it perfectly so he didn't kill us all. They pushed the boat into the water using the ole pole-on-a-tractor technique and once he was kind of in the water, he gunned the engines. I wept silently as the lower units and propellers dug into the sand and the two 300hp engines took a beating. He told us later we rebuilds the gear boxes every 12 weeks. Anyways, he was very good at what he does and we were off the beach and flying off huge waves in no time.

***I am getting too chatty. I can't fit anything on one post anymore. Continued in part 2...***