snorkeling at los Tuneles

Ok so this place freaked me out juuuust a bit. Rebecca said it was cooler than Tortugas but a bit more dangerous to enter. You here Tuneles, you automatically think tunnels right? She said we were gonna go on a small boat, which we did. Then she said in order to enter the tunnels you have to go through some huge waves, which mind you, the waves here ARE HUGE. And then she goes on to mention how people have died swimming in the tunnels cuz their wetsuits got stuck to the rocks at the bottom and weren't able to break free. So you tell me...does this sounds like a cool trip? HELL NO! So I'm picturing some "Guardian" type scene (you know, the movie with Ashton Kutcher & Kevin Costner), where they jump off the helicopter, and they have to go into that little cave where these divers got stuck and you can see the waves smashin into the rocks & they have to wait for the right moment to go in. Well, it turned out to not be nearly as bad as it sounded. We did have to wait for a break in the waves to go through, but there weren't really cave-like tunnels. It was open all around and the rocks were formed like bridges over the water everywhere, so it was underwater tunnels when you go swimming. Mind you, these tunnels are only like 10 seconds long. But nonetheless really cool!

We saw a beautiful spotted eagle ray swimming around. O and there was this one spot where there were sea turtles everywhere. Man those things can get BIG! There was one point where there were about 3 sea turtles just circlin around Drew, Claudio, and I. I was a little freaked out and wondered why they were circling us; remember, slow on land but freakin jets in the water! That's the closest I got to a sea turtle the entire trip. They weren't as scared as in other places. It was pretty easy to swim over them and follow them around for a bit before they panicked and jetted away. And ah yes, the Galapagos Ringtail Damselfish were everywhere swimming in out of little craters on the ocean-floor rocks. Cute little things they are indeed LOL.

And of course something ALWAYS SCARED ME. Claudio saw a tintorera (white-tipped shark) and had the most scared look on his face as he paddled as hard as he could back. He just kept sayin SHARK! SHARK! I SAW A SHARK! in his rough hispanic accent. I was like o crap and starting swimming back hard LOL. But of course, out of stupid curiousity we all stopped, turned around and looked for the dumb shark lol. Halfway through I changed my mind and decided that maybe it wasn't such a good idea to chase a shark LMAO. So i swam back to the boat and like 5 seconds behind me was Claudio. And yes you can imagine who stayed behind...Dora the explorer (Dre) and the black version of Steve Erwin (Drew) LOL.

So yea, that was the end of our snorkeling trip and our last real adventure here at the Galapagos =(