Jan 20th, 2015

We made it to Clarence Town on Long Island approx 2:30 pm on Monday the 20th. We anchored and immediately set out in the dingy to snorkel Dean's blue hole about 3 miles away. There is a  tight spot to get to it between the reefs. Well we found it fairly quickly, and came on the reef which was flat. Greg turned off the motor as not to damage it, and the we were ready to step out and pull the dingy further to shore. As I turned back to look at Greg, I noticed a large wave coming at us behind and above his head.  Greg turned and looked, but it came upon us so fast and forcefull that it turned the dingy sideways and rolled us. Luckily chopper had his lifevest on and faired well. I only scrapped my knees on the coral and Greg had no bodily damage. The motor on the otherhand was upside down in the water and our belongings were floating away. We managed to retrieve most of our stuff except the paddles, my fin and the anchor. We swam to shore where two very sweet young ladies offered help. Nerissa called her father and he came to our rescue to put the dingy in his truck and they transported our motor to a nearby friend to have it checked out. Greg snorkeled back and found 1 1/2 paddles, and my fin came to shore. We didn't make it to the blue hole that day. Walked past it but now we were here for another day regardless.