Close encounter

Today, Anna and I and another couple took our dinghies on a boat trip up into the mangroves. At one point the bottom was stirred up and we thought that it was from our friend’s dinghy that had just gone before us but, as it turned out, it had been stirred up by a family of manatees! Just around the next bend we came upon them, four adults and one youngster! We stopped and watched them slowly glide through the water. The young one came up to our dinghy and let me scratch its back and shake its flipper. This was one of the coolest things that have happened to me on this whole trip. We'll post all the pictures in the album.