Location: The Bight, Norman Island
Hey, I’m Maxwell, and today I was the skipper. After everyone was up and we had breakfast, we went to some speech thing that Big Mike was in charge of, where he basically talked for an hour and 30 minutes about some rules we had to know. Then we went to our boats to start the day, we left at like 9:00 and went to the snorkelling spot. Once we reached the spot, I remembered we had the swimming test where you basically swim four laps around the boat and tread water for 10 minutes; of course, while we were treading water, Adrenaline had to touch someone, so we started the 10 minutes over. After all that, Orion, Mason, Mario, Nat, Oona, and I practiced doing backflips and death dives, which was the most fun I’ve had on this trip so far. Death dives are basically when you jump off the boat and fake do a bellyflop just to tuck your arms and legs before you hit the water. Then we went to the actual snorkel spot after eating some sandwiches and arrived at the caves. The snorkeling was very fun, and we got to see tons of new fish, and it was awesome. When we finished snorkeling, we went back to the boat to do some more death dives and left for the place we were staying the night. The spot was really chill and we were having sloppy joes for dinner, our chef, Mario decided to put way too much water in the mashed potatoes so they were literally just soup. It was all okay though because the sloppy joes were actually so good, I had like 3 of them. Hey, Mom and Dad, thank you so much for sending me on this trip. It has been so much fun so far; I love you guys!