Tiff - Utila (last day)
"YAY!!!
WE SAW THEM!!!IT WAS WONDERFUL!!!
We swam with 6 whale sharks and a huge Manta Ray also some scary Tarpin. It was unbelievable. When you see the ocean boiling with fish going crazy jumping and scattering in packs--It often means a whale shark. They call it a boil. Whenever we saw a boil the excitement was unbearable. Our Captain Albert (a native-a character) keep us in a frenzy of excitement as well. He loves his whale sharks and loves showing them off. It was one fire drill after another.
Everyone stayed suited up and ready to plunge in the moment one was spotted. If we missed it it was a crazy flurry to all jump back on the boat--fins and all askew. We were all giggling and laughing at how crazy we had all become--jumping in on top of each other with Albert screaming-"IN THE WATER GO GO GO--HE"LL GET AWAY". "GET BACK IN--HURRY HURRY __THERE HE GOES WE GOT TO CATCH HIM"!! WHEW!!!
The whale sharks are 30 feet long and massively built.
They eat small tuna and bait fish because although they have teeth, their throats are so tiny they can't swallow anything bigger than a small fish. Really weird. One swam right toward me and only went below me at the last minute before he would have banged into me with his huge mouth. I guess he wanted a good look--The same thing happened to Brad. They are enormous, but give off such a peaceful aura that they aren't scary--neither are the huge rays but the tarpin were scarey to me ????don't know why.
I have made great friends with our maid. She liked me right off and although I find her Spanish very difficult to understand--we have talked for hours. She has a nephew that tried to get to the United States but they haven't heard from him in a month so they think something happened to him in Mexico. She works here on Utila to support her family-as there is no work in her town on the mainland. She says it is so poor that everyone is desperate to get away and find work--mostly in the US, but getting thru Mexico is terrifying to them. Its all so sad. She was so sweet to Brad-just worrying and worrying about his sunburn, which is O.K. now."
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