Great day excursion

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Exuma – very cool! We got on a powerboat and headed towards an island. It was a very small island with nice white sand and blue water. When the boat pulled up to the island about 50 iguanas came crawling out from the bushes ready to eat! We had grapes and either threw them or put them on a stick so the iguanas could eat them. How cool! We then headed to Exuma which is a private island. It as a couple buildings which is a bar and few residences. Yes, the workers live there. Whoa! Could you imagine being out the during a hurricane?! I’m confident they get the off the island but something cool to think about! A couple workers cleaned some fresh grouper on a table in the water. So what happens when you have fish guts dropping from the table into the ocean? Yep… sharks! About seven or eight 5 foot sharks swam up. We’re not talking a Sea World tank… we’re talking wild from the ocean! The workers kept an eye on them as they would swim by. We ate and the food was good. Tracy really liked the fresh grouper. Afterwards we ate we took more remains and went to feed the sting ray. Yepper in the ocean! We lined up and held fish out. The sting rays swim up and suck (they have no teeth) the fish up. Cool! Ok, guess who else was swimming around. Sharks! So we fed them too. The guide got a big ball of fish guts and tied it to a 10 foot rope. He then threw it out like a fishing line and waited for one of them to bite. When they did he would bring it in. They would hang on with their teeth. Big teeth!!! Tracy and me actually did it. We pulled the rope and the shark came right up on the sand. These were wild sharks! Very cool! We also went snorkeling. Very strong current! So after some drinks we headed home. Most people slept on the boat. I didn’t. There were some beautiful homes on the coats. Evidently celebrities like it in the Bahamas because they don’t have paparazzi. Tracy didn’t want to do anything that night… so we didn’t.

"Start swimming!"