Swimming

This is called the Gatorade Swim because Gatorade gives you a water bottle and a bottle of Gatorade after you swim. They also hold on to your clothes while y swim. Pretty cool. As you can see, hundreds of people take advantage of this opportunity.

This is what it looks like where the start of the race will be. I have gone out and swam the course on Tuesday and Wednesday. As you can tell there are a lot of people doing the same thing. Today (Wednesday) the waves were pretty tough. They don't look too bad in the picture, but out away from shore I had trouble seeing where I was going because you could not see in between the swells. The water is warm though, and very buoyant. It feels like you have a wetsuit on, but you don't.



We were also able to spend some time on a little beach that had many sea turtles. I personally did not go snorkeling, but everyone else did. To see the turtles I could just stand in knee deep water and they would just feed on the greenery on the coral reef. Pretty amazing. Emma tought every time that the turtles head popped up, it was saying 'Hi Emma.' And whenever one of its flippers popped up, she thought it was waving at her... pretty cute.