St. John Tues. 3/13/12

Dave was up several times last night coughing so after breakfast this morning, we drove into Cruz Bay to the Clinic. As we both suspected, he has bronchitis. We found the drug store and filled his prescriptions, stopped at the grocery store for bananas and the fixings for ice cream, picked up the VIERS mail, and then headed back to camp. We arrived just in time for lunch. I sent Dave to the cottage for a nap while I made up a batch of peanut butter cookies and started the ice cream. It has to sit for 24 hours to absorb the vanilla bean flavor. I really wanted to make it again for the staff before we have to leave and we only have a week left - boo hoo! When I finished in the kitchen, I went down to Greater Lameshur to join Barb, Jim, and Charlie for a snorkel. I caught up with them as they we coming back around the point and we snorkeled together for a while. Barb and I saw a juvenile Queen Angelfish - very cute - a little mini-me! The best thing, though, was when Charlie spotted an octopus. I don't know how he saw it - there was just a tentacle sticking out from under a rock. Charlie kept going down and teasing it and it did come out a bit to see what was disturbing it. Finally, Charlie nudged it with his foot and it felt his big toe with its tentacle - I laughed in my snorkel! I guess it didn't think Charlie's toe was too good to eat as it went right back into its hole! Dave just got up and says he is feeling a little bit better, but we will see - usually, it takes at least 24 hours before the medicine starts to kick in. I'm just glad we caught it early. It will only be staff for dinner tonight as both groups are eating in town. Manhattan is doing a night snorkel tonight when they get back to camp. Again, we have a beautiful, sunny day. The breeze is warm and welcome and the water is clear and a lovely turquoise blue.