Toucari Bay Snorkeling

Well, Matte Beare's brother came into town this week and since I'm the adventure seeker in the group, they asked me to show him the Dominica ropes.  Here's our Toucari Bay trip.. not that exciting of a day, but here are pics anyway ;)

 BRAIN CORAL

Blue Headed Wrasse

Blue Tang

Sea Fan

Squidies! They change color and you never see a group of them, you see a line.  They are so cool and sometimes kind of playful.

Sand Dollar

Pelicans and a Fisherman's Bum

We took the beach route on our way to school this morning (we usually take the jungle route). These pelicans were following the fishermen to see if they could snag any yummy fish. Yup, dude is nakey. I figured if he doesn't care why should I?

 This guy soared right over me. He's huge- his wings look like giant hands

Coming in for a landing...

I just got wise to the fact that they have free WIFI down here.... umm yeaahhh... I may never leave. Working on the beach this morning.

And more ketchup.

I thought I'd take a break from packing up my house and post more of the stuff that's been on the docket.  It was WAY too much to post in one sitting. 

During May everyone in our family was a student :)  Pretty cool.  Aaron flew out on April 19th and started school on May 7th. Here are a few pictures of his beginnings in Dominica... 

Layover in San Juan- This was at the hotel where Aaron stayed called The Beach House (This is where I'll be staying on Monday night ... uhhh one week from RIGHT THIS VERY MINUTE! yip yip!)

Then he got to Dominica.  Here is his landing...

Here is our house...

the 2nd story in the back :)

And here's a look down our street:

Notice the absense of street lights? It's super dark at night - Aaron was walking home in the dark the other night and tripped over something.  He was pretty startled when he looked back and found that what he tripped over had been a large crab the size of our kitchen stool.

if you look over the house down at the end of our street you can see this bay:

different view:

A hike the first years took.....

 In the capitol, Roseau, at the fish market.  This is a Marlin.

Aaron at his white coat ceremony- the same day as my graduation!

Stay tuned for the kids' and my graduation! G'night!

Superstition Mountains- Hieroglyphics Canyon

Heya peeps! Our hike this morning was sooo perfect! The weather was nice, we started at the best time, the trail was an endurance test rather than strength training, there were a lot of animals about, and the canyon was beautiful!

We set out at 5:15am - the trail was rocky and there was a good steady incline. We were in the shadow of the mountain until the last 15 minutes of the return trip so our timing was perfect.  We encountered a lot of animals on our hike including rabbits, snakes, and lizards. Once we got to the spring we spent about 45 minutes checking out the pools full of mating frogs, petroglyphs, mortar holes in a rock, and a huge rock shelter. We didn't see anyone else on the trail until the last 20 minutes and they were wishing they had set out earlier.  I had so much fun hiking with my peeps! Enjoy the Pics! (Thanks, Brittney, for taking the pictures!)

Tonto!

Three Amigos: Brittney W, Josefina W, and Me W.

umm- I'm a dork.

just before sunrise!

The springs- not so springy, but hey, in the desert water is water

(I guess water is water everywhere else, but we appreciate it more here :)

There were more petroglyphs- these were just the

first we saw so we got all excited and took pictures :)

TONS of mating froggies in the pools- they just swam around attached like that- I wonder how long they stay that way.  They were also REALLY loud.

ummm yeaaaahhh.....
(that was for you, Brit.Lawl)

awwww..how... interesting

Cool Large Rock Shelter

On our way back down

Mortar holes in the rock- where the natives ground their corn, flour, etc..

What a great morning!  Goodbye Mountains!

If anyone wants to hike next saturday I'll let you know where we'll be going by Thursday. Let me know!