Instead of cramming too much in the few days we had with our guests, we stayed two nights at a secluded beach and went to Isla Contadora, the main 'party' island, after the weekend.
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| Here is the secluded beach with no rocks around us |
Activities: Watching the paint dry... When we anchored, we knew we are surrounded by rocks and reef, but little could be seen besides maybe a change in water color. 6h later we were surrounded by new islands and beaches to walk on.
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| off to the new rock/islands that appeared around us |
Other ways to entertain us are feisty hermit crabs running from us.
The crew had to learn getting the dinghy high up on the beach. We use a simple fender, drop it in front of the dinghy and roll the dingy uphill, two dinghy lengths far. Fender comes out the back end, drop it in front, repeat... Back to the beach in reverse order. The two of us can do a loaded dinghy that way. With so much crew we almost didn't need the fender.
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Back to the headline: What is the SSSS? A sap sucking sea slug! No, not a derogatory term at all. On one of the dinghy trips to one of the disappearing islands, we walked around tidal pools and looked for marine life. Almost back to the dinghy, there was a shiny green stone with white stripes, in the sand. Getting closer, it moved. Caught in the sand it embedded itself with sand, but we were able to scoop it up with an old shell and release it in a tidal pool for further observation. Mike identified the tiny animal as a Nudi-Branch at first, more internet research showed it as the SSSS = Elysia Diomedea.
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| not our pic... but it looked like this, the underbelly is green with white stripes |
No camera was with us that time, no pics taken of the SSSS, must be fake news....
