Coral World

As you may know from my brother's blog or my mom's blog, our family went to our annual vacation spot, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands!!!!!!! We left this Sunday and we're staying until next Sunday. Today, Tuesday, we went to Coral World a Marine park. There was a tourist rate and a local rate. Since Alex and I aren't local we had our local friend, Roy, get us tickets at local rate. Since our Californian friends Jamie, Auntie (Diana), and Aggie were also locals they got in cheap. We just left Mom behind, haha.

We saw all kinds of sea life including Turtles, Nurse Sharks, Stingrays, Seahorses, plenty of Fish, Barnacles, Sea Cucumber, Starfish, and Sea Urchins. We had a lot of fun, especially 2 year old Jamie who ran around yelling "Look, it's a turtle!" or "Oooooh, I found the fish!"

There were also local iguanas hanging from the trees. We fed them lettuce which we found on the paved ground. The iguanas looked very scary with the spikes running down their backs, their dangerous snapping mouths, and the variety of dingy colors mixing together on their peeling skin.

Later, we were watching the Stingrays while holding leftover lettuce. I counted 8 Stingrays, 2 of them were swimming around while the rest were hidden in the sand on the bottom of the pool. I was attempting to take a picture of them with my digital camera and Alex was videotaping them with his Flip Book. One of the moving stingrays suddenly jumped up out of the water obviously trying to eat our lettuce. It scared Alex and I out of our wits. We almost dropped our electronics in the pool!!!

We had so much fun watching the tropical marine life that we were the last ones to leave the park. That was really fun even though I've been there a lot before!!!