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After exploring the fort, we wandered in Old San Juan, popular for it’s blue cobblestone streets. All of the buildings in Old San Juan are so cute! It looked like how I would think Italy would look. We grabbed some authentic Puerto Rican food at Café Puerto Rico and then headed back to the ship. Next, we spent a few hours on the beach about ¾ of a mile or so from the ship. The water was SO warm and refreshing! The sun was pretty darn intense so it was nice to hop in the water for a bit. One thing that surprised me was that the water seemed extremely salty…no idea why, though!
I did my first SAS excursion on Thursday night: Bioluminescent Bay. SO COOL! We rode a bus for about an hour and a half to get to the bay where we hopped in two-person sea kayaks and kayaked through a long, winding lagoon to get to the Bioluminescent Bay. I LOVE kayaking so I knew I was going to enjoy it, but it was just amazing once we got close to the bay. We started to notice the water sparkling when our paddles dipped into the water while we were still in the lagoon. ((We were doing this in completely in the dark. The kayaks had blinking lights on the back of them so we could follow each other as we paddled)) Finally, we made it out to the bay and we were able to jump in the water and swim. It’s such an awesome natural phenomenon! I was expecting the bay to just glow like a glow stick, but it just starts to glow when you disrupt the water. If you don’t move too fast, it just looks like green sparkles, but if you move your legs really fast it looks like you’re floating in bright green water. This is actually a terrible description…I don’t think I can really describe in words how it looked! Anyways, there are 5 sites in the world that this occurs and 3 of them are in Puerto Rico. Actually, one in Puerto Rico and one in Jamaica have gotten too polluted, so there are 2 remaining in Puerto Rico and one in the Bahamas. The glow in the water is caused by fragile organisms which light up with any movement in the water. We saw some fish jumping out of the water in the lagoon that made the water glow…they scared the crap out of me! Apparently it is good luck if one jumps in your kayak…none jumped in ours. The environment that these organisms survive in is extremely salty and warm. The bay only varies about 5 degrees during the year. It is definitely a must-see!
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