Feb. 26 Los Tunelles

I took a half day tour to the Tunelles (an area of collapsed lava tubes)....with two other couples. Michael stayed aboard to tackle our list of boat projects. It was a rough one hour ride up the coast and when we arrived at our destination, I thought "there's no way we can navigate the breakers". We couldn't see the low calm area we were headed for. Fabrizio, our guide, was amazing, timing the waves and zig zagging around the lava heads that would be perilous if we hit. There were sea turtles, boobies, and crabs. He then brought us to an area were we snorkeled. I've never seen such a big lobster! We saw a 4' white tip shark on its way back to his cave, sea horses (which I never would have spotted without Fabrizio showing us where to look on the branches on the bottom), and big sea turtles that you could swim very close to. There's no coral here, just volcanic rock, which has a mossy growth in some of these pools. There were colorful fish, some very large ones, which were not skittish. It was another wet bouncy ride back...our camera's safely stowed in the hold, or I'd have some different pictures!