Last full day on Beautiful Bermuda! A tragedy at best. 🙁 It was a day well spent. In the morning we got a VIP tour of the aquarium; we saw what really goes on back there. It’s pretty much what I expected. We got to see tanks where fish were healing and bins where injured birds were also healing. There were two Bermuda Longtails and one American coot in the infirmary. We saw the tops of the aquarium tanks for each fish…it was really cool! Then we checked out more of the zoo and museum; I liked the Australasia exhibit. I had a nice conversation with a tree kangaroo, but the flying fox bats just stared at me. In the museum I calculated my ecological footprint, and if everyone lived like me we would need about 6.3 planet Earth’s to sustain all the me’s………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….but I only guesstimated the questions that involved kilometers so it could be less. I hope it’s less.
I forgot to mention that the weather today was AWESOME! Not that windy, not that not sunny and blue skies and gorgeous….this meant that we were able to take the hour-long boat ride out to North Rock for some spectacular snorkeling. And spectacular it was! There was so much reef! The coolest thing we saw was a sea turtle! It was swimming along the sand near the a reef ledge, but when I tried to call all my friends over to check it out and take a picture it got scared and swam away. There were also a few massive grouper swimming about. Unbelievable how big they are. I just couldn’t believe it! It was a beautiful reef; saw lots of stoplight parrotfish whose name I finally remembered.
For our last supper we had a lovely meal at the Swizzle Inn, a classic haunt around these parts. It’s so sad to be leaving this place so soon! And tomorrow is supposed to be the best weather of the whole trip….you can’t win all the time. This was a great day to end on…expect one more post, dear readers, unless the flight tomorrow ends in the depths of the Triangle.