Snorkelling trip to Isla del Caño

We headed out to sea again today but this time to Isla del Caño for an underwater snorkelling adventure. Our boat picked us up from the beach in Drake bay at 0730 and then we popped over the water to the island. On our way over we saw several pods of pacific white sided dolphins swimming. Once we arrived and booked in with the wildlife rangers who were sat on a boat, we were given our snorkels and fins. Our guide Claudio jumped off the boat and ushered us to follow him. Once we were all in the water he took us into a reef and would point out all different sea creatures. On our first trip out we saw loads of fish and saw 3 hawksbill turtles, one of which swam up next to us to get some air! A pretty mesmerising sight. Unfortunately only Dan saw the white tipped reef shark that was swimming by!
We then went for a break on the beach by the ranger station where we were treated by Claudia to Pineapple and homemade cookies.
Our second snorkelling trip of the day was a little further along the coast here the visibility was much worse than the morning. As soon as we got off the boat we saw a massive male Green turtle! It was over a meter long and was sleeping at the bottom. We all tried to swim down to the bottom to see it. Even Freya who got down the first time but in her second attempt comically kicked her legs furiously above water but did more of a tap dance rather than a dive below the surface(see video). The rest of the second trip was uneventful due to the low visibility. We headed back to the boat which took us to a beach on the mainland for lunch where we had a delicious rice, beans and salad meal with watermelon juice. We then had a little swim Before heading back to Drake bay.

Once back we had a chill afternoon, Melissa and Dan headed to a coffee shop while Freya and Derry chilled with some smoothies on the beach. We then headed to the hotel for dinner with Derry falling asleep in his food.Read more