Saturday, July 28, 2007

Havania

Returned to Lito after a last walk into Ag Nik. and crashed out. Woke up later in the afternoon feeling a bit dodgy but after 1/2 an hour felt well enough to go for a final snorkel. Yas stayed to loll around and enjoy the air-conditioning. I went down to Havania beach and put in along the beach and swam to the cliffs past a pontoon and several beaches. Not much to see on the bottom 50-100m out. Very little reefy stuff, saw a few anchors and bits of pipe.

A little further out speedboats towed inflatables up and down. One of them threw everyone off. I was very glad to have blob (it's essential on swims that involve a crossing or anywhere near watersport areas), and was pleased there were a few pedal boats too in my vicinity before the speed boats. Without the blob I would have had to hug the coast a bit more. Where I snorkelled, the swell from boats was a bit annoying, but not too bad.

I arrived at the cliffs and rocks, and begun to see some the wildlife. I took some pictures and found a good place to feed the fish. I saw the usual wrasse, bream, blennies, gobies, and parrotfish. Releasing a little bread around a rock with a nice hole (like I did the other day), I got some fair pictures.

On the way back, the return took me about 30-40 minutes, there was a bit of floating litter and I picked up a few plastic bags. I found my clothes on the beach, my lime green goody bag helped, and walked up the hill for the last time; my arm was extremely sore from yesterdays stinging and my ankles ached, but it didn't spoil my enjoyment of the warmth and the lovely views.

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