Another day is beautiful.

They always  are…. IF we are able to take notice.  But here, the surroundings help make it easier to find the good in the day.  It makes it a lot easier to find the beautiful.   You know the drill by now… sun, sail, sand, surf.

And of course, warm.

This morning, we started out on a high note indeed.  We enjoyed a very good visit… with some really fine friends.   I like a sweet morning such as that.

Then a little later …. were relaxing on the beach, and overheard that there were some reef sharks near the main dock.  I ran to the dive shop, bought a snorkel and a mask (my old ones needed to be replaced anyway)….  and then mad a dash for the water.

I love to swim with fish in the ocean.  (In fact….I miss Magoo, and have been on a quest to find him… since we first met.)  But today, I was pretty psyched about seeing some Reef Sharks and swimming with them.

So snorkely  I did.  And snorkeled, and snorkeled and snorkeled.  I looked high and low, deep and shallow, near the dock and away.  I could not find a Reef Shark.  No way, no how.

I saw a lot of Terrapin, Queen Angle Fish, Parrot Fish, and many others. I might have seen a Horse-Eyed Jack… but there were a bunch of fishy-fish out today.   But…. no Shark.   And that’s the way the snorkeling can go.

Tonight, we were having yet another nice dinner with the kids at Tukka.  And it hit me.  Today is Friday the 13th.  I think…. all of a sudden…. that  …. perhaps…. I am glad I did not see the shark.  Or more to the point… that it did not see me.  But I always love to see more of our beautiful family and our beautiful friends.  Anytime.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. –Ralph Waldo Emerson