Well, hello there Tony the turtle!

Meet Tony turtelony! My best friend while scavenging the sea bodem on the hunt for whatever there was to find. As I was watching ‘The Rescue’ documentary earlier in the week and think about how scary I found cave diving, I was think about how I thought about normal diving. This is something a lot of people do and don’t find it so scary.

But why does every thread in my body always scream that diving is just diving you should not want to be doing, and just keep it with snorkeling on the surface. After all, even when you stay quite up in the water, there is still enough to see.

In Aruba where I recently was I encountered quite some turtles in the ocean in places where they are not fed or anything. They were just there and chilling and these were not really well-known turtle spots. And the funniest of things is that these guys are damn big over there! I literally sometimes was ducking away because I thought this guy just might swim into me. And I guess their little turtle house is just solid as a rock and I don’t feel the need to check on how solid it is.

Swimming and snorkeling. I do really like the vibe underwater that there is absolutely no distraction and you can only hear the vibration of the water. But where the bottom gets away to far and you stare into the great big blue, nehhhh I am not so fond of that. I remember way back we were on a boat coming van St Martin to St Barths and some people had to take a pee underway. Jump overboard when the boat has stopped is always a good option for that, but the whole idea of that there was 6 km water underneath me, made me just stay in the boat and wait for some shore line.

But the cool thing about snorkeling is that you don’t have to go so far to see some nice fish and other wildlife just minding their business. You can just take some peeks around and see whatever drops by. Heck even swimming over the bottom of the sea and seeing how the waves create all of this texture in the sand is already mesmerizing.

But finding Tony the turtle and having a swim with him for a bit until finding a couple more of his brothers. Well, that is just bonus. Stay cool out there Tony!