Last day on the Island: Swimming with dogs and Snorkeling

Sunday afternoon JL and I took his dogs Billy (basset hound) and Julian (white with brown spots mutt) to a state park on the water called "Salt River." Billy has had minimal swimming experience in a freshwater river, but neither of them had done any real swimming in the ocean.

At first, they test the water:


Billy jumps right in!



(only later on when JL and I were in the water as well did both of them swim all the way out to us, stop for a break by leaning on us, and swim back to shore. absolutely adorable!)

here's the view of salt river.


this was a gorgeous rock made up of a rainbow of colored rocks all stuck together with sandstone.


snorkeling shamir! we only had to swim out a short distance to see beautiful coral with hundreds of fish swimming by right under our noses. it was so relaxing to just float on the surface with my mask on watching the scene below. really, who needs TV?