We’ll write more later about the stop here at Cocos, but let’s just say for starters that this is an amazing place. The island is absolutely beautiful lush jungle. We even have our own little private waterfall pouring right into our anchorage. And the diving is spectacular. Just for the record, though, it is very scary seeing the hammerhead sharks because it’s not you checking them out – it’s them checking you out. And they’re big and terrifying to me.
But we’re so glad to be here and although the $100 per day fees seemed exorbitant, the folks on the live-aboard dive boats are paying $1,000 per day so we’re actually getting quite a bargain! There are plenty of fishes and coral right here in the anchorage, so if we didn’t want to load up the dinghy and go out to a dive site we could just jump off the boat and have a terrific dive.
As luck would have it there is a big boat in here who was willing to sell us fuel so Rob’s been busy loading fuel in case the winds don’t reappear between here and the Galapagos. Apparently there is a huge low pressure system between New Zealand and South America sucking the wind out of the area we’re heading towards. Hopefully it’ll finish up and some winds will reappear by the time we’re ready to leave on Tuesday or Wednesday.
We did two dives yesterday and two the day before. Today we may just limit it to one, but it’s hard to pass this up even if we are getting tired. Brit and Axel (our friends from Germany on the boat Hello World) are here with us, so we take turns diving and waiting on the surface with the dinghies. There is lots of current and no place to anchor the dinks, so we have to tend to them during each dive and go pick up the divers when they surface. It becomes a pretty long day when you add in dinners together every night afterwards.
But it’s as incredible as we had hoped it would be and although we’ll be tuckered out when we finally go we’re so glad we got the opportunity to stop here.
Teresa
