Lil Alfonse Act II

Thursday, February 20, 2014.

Today we had booked another snorkeling tour with Alfonse.  He was scheduled to pick us up 9am on the pier.
Now, our boys from the night before, they got up and were ready to go, although one was suffering

considerably (poor ol' Brandyn!).  The boys were not getting much sympathy from the ladies!  Nolan seemed to have fared better than Brandyn.  I think Brandyn must have had a bad lime or something last night!
Alfonse picked us up and we zipped out to Hol Chan & Shark Alley.  The water was absolutely crystal clear!  There were twice as many fish around this time.  Alfonse said that we hit awesome conditions that always brought in lots of the reef fish.  When we jumped in, there were two sea turtles feeding right there beside the boat!  We saw a couple of huge eagle rays, another big green moray eel, more sting rays, a couple of nurse sharks and thousands and thousands of reef fish!  We went over to Shark Alley and again Alfonse amazed us with his interactions with the rays and sharks.

Kirsten aka Shark Girl!

He wrangled a 7 footer for us and we all got the opportunity for photo ops holding it.  Alfonse called his pal "Bobo", the large ray with part of its tail missing, and it came to him like a pet dog would!  There were Caribbean rays, sting rays, spotted rays and nurse sharks everywhere!  There were a couple of 10 foot plus nurse sharks that came in as well.
This was again an awesome experience.  The little Peanut missed a bit of it as she powered out and napped through most of our stop at Shark Alley.  Brandyn had to take a break at Shark Alley too!  His claim to fame for this trip was he survived it and didn't chum the waters!
After the awesome snorkeling trip we spent the afternoon resting and relaxing in the sun and shade for those who needed some deep zees (Brandyn!).
This evening we decided to try Ramone's for dinner.  It was another awesome dinner.  The special was the fresh catch of the day, grouper, blackened, with shrimp, .veggies and coconut rice, Munchkin and I had this.  Nolan and Kirsten had a bacon wrapped stuffed shrimp dish that was very tasty they said and Brandyn found his appetite and had a pesto style catch of the day.  The Peanut loves fish!  She chowed down on the grouper like it was candy!
We made one stop on the way home for some fresh eggs as Brenda was going to be making eggs benny for the household tomorrow morning!
After a bit of decompressing we all drifted off to bed ending another fabulous day on Ambergris Caye!

Alfonse's "pet" Bobo!

Gracyn at sea

 

Alfonse with one of his buddies!