I added this post as a place holder for now to upload a few videos I finished. We just had some amazing snorkeling here, which made for some great videos! I’ll add more text and our photos to this post soon.

We snorkeled around Cistern Point next to Cooper Island. We loved it so much, we made sure to jump in twice today. After snorkeling a bit around the “front” of the point, which is where everyone else snorkels, Rob swam over to let us know that the other side of the Point was much better. Wow, he was right! It was the best place we’ve snorkeled (so far) in the US or British Virgin Islands (this year or last year).

The water was very clear, there were tons of fish, and there were multiple layers (depths) of coral and rock. The varying depths let us see more different types of fish. These videos are from this “backside” of Cistern Point.

We were so lucky to see a graceful Eagle Ray as soon as we jumped in the water from the dinghy. Jeff had good eyes and spotted it. We swam with it for a bit until it disappeared into the sea. Here is a great video of the eagle ray.

In our afternoon snorkel, we jumped off the dinghy, swam a few feet, and saw this nurse shark. Another lucky find after this morning’s eagle ray! Nurse sharks will wedge themselves under rocks and ledges to rest during the day, coming out at night to hunt. This is a very short video, because the shark didn’t move. So it’s just so you can see it.

This video is a compilation of fish from our afternoon snorkel. Enjoy it with the music.

Finally, near the end of our snorkeling, we saw this Lion Fish just hovering. It was very cool how he would expand and contract his feathery “frills”. Lion Fish like to hang upside down like this. Surprisingly, this was the only Lion Fish we have seen in our two Virgin Island trips. That’s good, as they can be a very nasty invasive species.

That’s it for now! I have even more video to go through, as well as our pictures. But this is a place holder blog post for now. I’ll update it after I add the other days of our trip previous to this one.