More reef exploration near Salinas: the Caribbean octopus and the reef squid. The octopus has always been hiding under a coral or rock shelf; you have to look closely to see her blinking eye or a tentacle. The squid are out in the open, in groups of four, five, or as many as nine. They seem to travel in groups, and in formation.

Debby will be flying back to Minnesota for a few weeks, to help move her mom into a nursing home. Larry is staying behind in Salinas to take care of the boat, as we are still in the high season for hurricanes. He may need to move the boat back over to the Bahia Jobos mangrove forest for protection if a hurricane threatens the area. It has been pretty quiet, after Hurricane Felix went well south of us a few weeks ago. Just to remind us we aren't through with storms yet, this morning we got rain showers from the remnants of Tropical Storm Ingrid, which is passing to the north in a disorganized fashion (which is the way we like to see our tropical storms, disorganized and disintegrating).