As you step off the dingy, you hear rustling in the bushes and see dark shadows flitting through the grass. Then shooting out of the brush towards you comes an iguana! Shooting right out of the brush TOWARDS YOU!
And he's brought 9 or 10 of his friends!
Some of them are quite big, about the size of a small dog, certainly much larger than the pet ones you see perched on people's shoulders. I took some great pictures (which I will post when we encounter wifi next) of Steve and the 'Big Boy' iguana. And after a little stroll on the beach, we thought Big Boy had gone away, but no! He was hiding under our dingy and rushed out in front of me as I went past!
The water was so clear and beautiful off the beach that I went for a snorkel. Steve had already been earlier to check the anchor and then he went hunting for conch (he had asked me if I had taken anything out of the freezer for dinner and I said no, "You're expecting me to catch some conch for dinner, aren't you?" "Yes." "You better take something out of the freezer." Then he paddled about, dove down several times and came back with two lovely conch.
Then they had to be taken out of their shells and cleaned. We had bought conch back in Bimini because we weren't ready to take on this particular challenge, but now we were mentally and physically prepared. It's gross, really gross. The first one was a bit of a handful and very slimy, but very quickly Steve mastered the technique and the second one was much easier. Since he caught them and cleaned them, he got to pick what to have for dinner which means he gets his favourite, Conch Pasta!
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