Island in the sun

I don’t think there could be a more magnificent place on earth than on a private island. Three of my fellow teachers and I had the privilege of escaping the everyday tasks to get a little R&R off the coast of La Ceiba. We traveled 6 hours by car and an hour and a half by boat to arrive at the most amazing beach I have ever been to. Words could not begin to describe the beauty I felt, pictures hardly do it justice. In a place like this, one comes face to face with the handy work of God like never before and wonders how anyone could ever question if there is a God. We were surrounded by nothing but His glory. At night we looked into the sky and watched the stars sparkle; and because we were around NOTHING but the ocean the stars shined brighter and we saw a lot more than normal. The night sky was enough to sell me, but then morning broke and the most astonishing pinks and oranges appeared and I knew that it couldn’t get better than that, and yet it did. God can not be limited. Never have I seen such a blue ocean! The water was crystal clear, clam and inviting. The water was so blue that it almost looked fake, in the pictures it looks like we are swimming in a pool, but there was no pool on the island. We snorkeled in the worlds second best coral reef, and I could not imagine there being a better one. There are NO WORDS! Really, I had no idea something like that existed. I have been to aquariums and thought it was cool, but I kind of thought that they just put a lot of really cool fish and things together and made it really big and stuff just so that you could see more fish and more types of coral. I guess I expected that stuff to be few and far between, but all of the that stuff was at our finger tips. The most marvelous fish swam easily as my jaw dropped, stunned by what I saw. If I had not seen it with my own eyes and don’t know that I would have believed it. We saw fish in every color imaginable, fish that looked like they came straight out of a fairy tale land. Big fish and tiny fish, ugly fish and the most beautiful fish all swimming there in perfect harmony. I also saw a sea turtle, it was a perfect looking sea turtle, as if it were a stuffed animal. To say that everything was breath taking would be an understatement. Other cool things that we encountered would be the pelicans that hung out on the docks and the vast amounts of hermit crabs that try repeatedly to get into our house at night. One night we even had hermit crab races! I didn’t know that hermit crabs could get so big, or that they stared so small, the smallest one that I saw was about the size of a comma mark on your key board, the largest was bigger than my fist. We also played hide and go seek in the dark, and lots of card games and I think that it goes with out saying that we laid out a lot too. I couldn’t imagine a more relaxing vacation, or a more beautiful place. I will add it to my list of things that I will never forget.