The Love Boat!

How many firsts can I experience and still be bowled over?! What an unforgettable morning :-) 

Up before the crack of dawn to get to breakfast as it opened at 5.30 - but only continental :-( who wants fruit and ham first thing in the morning? Obviously not a load of Indian people who had ducked under the barrier and were helping themselves to the other (good) stuff that had been put out! They did get a telling off, but I think they feigned language issues because it didn't stop them! We contented ourselves with toast and jam, and coffee, of course! 

Out at the quay by 6am to look for a taxi, of which we had been assured there would be plenty (so no need to book). Great advice - not! Anyway, to cut a long story short, we rang one, which arrived pretty sharpish and we shared it with another couple over to the other side of the island - plenty of time to get on our trip :-) I'd found this SNUBA and snorkelling outfit, Aqua Adventures, on Trip Advisor - turned out all accounts were perfectly correct in their praise :-)

SNUBA is a kind of SCUBA but instead of wearing a tank you just have the mouthpiece and the tank floats on a little raft above you, so you can go down to about 12ft - scuba on a leash! So much better than just snorkelling, although we got to to that too, and it was great. On our boat there were just 2 straight couples - Maui has had a big gay pride thing happening -  and they were also filming for a free-to-air tv programme ! Something to do with one of the guys on the trip - Bob, who's married to Ben, I think! They were such a gorgeous couple, and Ben was sooo gooey over Bob :-) He's going to send us a link to watch it, as Steve took some photos of them together under the water- oh yes, we rented an underwater camera from the boat :-) well, how could we miss out on the opportunity to photograph green sea turtles as we swam beside them!!! Take a look at what we did today:

We also met Dame Judi Dench and her wife! Even sounded like her too, just lovely :-) We were chatting to them up at the bow and Dame Judi's wife, who was actually called Judy (!) mentioned she'd seen flying fish, so be kept a close look-out, and sure enough we both saw some; they really do fly, not just leap-out- and-glide a long way before dropping back in - their little blue fins really do flap like wings! 

And I held a little baby octopus that one of the Aqua Adventures guys picked up - brilliant, brilliant morning :-)))))) 

We'd taken a light fleece and a rain jacket just in case it got cool out on the water - are we overly cautious, or just plain daft?! Even though it was a bit breezy, it was rather like being in a fan oven! 

Back on the ship we headed up to the pool area to laze and read (me to write the blog!) and the band was playing - and today they were ace! Soul, rock'n'roll, Motown, a bit of rock - real move your body stuff! 

I was dancing wildly on my sun lounger! Later, in the Pink Pussycat, as Steve called it - actually Pink's Champagne Bar - as we were drinking pink wine (well, what else and where else after such a gay day?!!!) he was laughing at me for dancing to the pianist in my chair; getting ready for the old folks' home, he thinks! 

A truly memorable day.