Blue Cave

Friday morning we had planned on seeing the big banyan tree, going back up to the White Grass Plains and doing some more snorkeling around the resort. Mais quelle surprise, Simon and his son, Clifford, were waiting to take us to Blue Cave. The full moon was gone, and the sea was back to normal.

We got in Simon's dinghy and headed out to sea. It's best to view Blue Cave when the sun is directly over it, so we had some time to kill. We snorkeled around a few reefs, which were pretty good (though got cold after awhile). I saw a sea snake wearing a zebra-print skin with an electric blue stripe down his side. He scared the beejesus out of me.

Then Clifford showed us this cave where his ancestors used to gather during cyclones. It was okay for a cave. I took a picture from the boat:

Blue Cave was well worth the wait. To get there, you have to duck under the rock between those two crevices:

I don't have any photos of inside the cave, as I lost my underwater camera (see "Coral, Hibiscus, and Kava"). It was pretty spectacular, though. The sun shone down through a hole in the top of the cave like a Cathedral. The reflection of the sun on the water and the walls of the cave made everything a very cool blue.