Underwater at Monkey Point

We had a couple of lovely days at an anchorage on Guana Island, recommended by our friends on Ta-B. They also told us we had to go down to Monkey Point and snorkel there.

We took their advice, left early and found one of the few mooring balls where we could sit for breakfast then take a swim.

The underwater life was spectacular, a very varied landscape of rock, coral, sand and other features just teeming with fish and animal life.

The highlight was a couple of huge shoals of small fish, some up to a couple of inches long, swarming and rolling in a huge group of silver slivers. Swimming through them parts the shoal and it reforms around you as you cut through the group. But we were not the only big creatures cruising through the shoals.

Out of the mass of fish would come tarpon, big, big fish up to six feet long, cruising along admiring their breakfast, but not actually eating at that time, for some reason. There were groups of up to twenty tarpon, following almost nose to tail, and it was a wonderful sight. Hard to capture on camera, although the photo below gives some idea.

The snorkelling was so good that even Max stayed in the water well over half an hour and we were sad to leave but on we must go, we had a day planned at Cane Garden Bay.