Walking through to Flash of Beauty Beach, view from the beach
bar/restaurant. Wow!
This beach had the most beautiful snorkling, certainly of this trip and
perhaps ever for
Allison and me. Within a few yards of the beach is a huge amount
of reef. We asked
someone which direction to go in, and they pointed out a cut through
the reef, which we
found our way into after a few false starts. The cut went from
about 10-30 feet deep, and
was only about 10 feet wide for much of the way, so we had amazing
walls of reef all
around us all the way up to the surface! The coral was beautiful
and there were an incredible
number and variety of fish. The most dramatic was the spotted
eagle ray which Allison
pointed out to me and we followed along for a few minutes.
Awesome! Further out we got
some rougher surge and deeper water which made for decreased
visibility, but we were
pretty tired by that point, so we headed back in. Of
course, we didn't remember the path we'd
taken through the reef, so we had a few exciting moments holding our
breath and swimming
carefully over shallow spots, but we made it back safe, sound, and very
happy with all we'd seen.
