I’m posting this late Saturday night, from our second condo. I’m going to talk about our trip to DePalm Island on Thursday. It has easily been the best snorkeling we’ve had on the island. Click on the pic to the left to get a panorama of the whole island.

It’s a cool deal – there is one price, and it’s for the whole day. They come and pick you up in an air conditioned bus, and take you to the southern part of the island. From there, it’s an easy five minute ferry ride to the island.

Once on the island, there is a restaurant that serves an all you can eat buffet breakfast, with everything from french toast, eggs, bacon, ham, sausage, fruit, cereal, juices, yogurt – you name it, it’s there. That is available til 11 am. At 11:30 am lunch starts and again, a generous buffet lunch, that is served til 3:30. Again, all you can eat.

There is a bar that serves any mixed drink, rum, vodka, whiskey, pina colada, daquiris, beer, etc. This place also serves all you can eat burgers, hotdogs, chicken, fries etc. There are over 70 rides for the kids in the water park.

And then – there is the snorkeling! WOW – just spectacular. You can even swim out to a coral reef. DePalm Island tho, is famous for the Blue Parrotfish. And wow, what a great fish!

The Blue Parrotfish is quite large, about as long as a person’s leg in some cases. They are extremely friendly, and very curious. They come around in schools of 5 or 6, and they will even let you “pet them.”
They want you to feed them and Pam and Pete did. They had tons of fish hanging around them and I tried to snap pic after pic! However, the Olympus sprung a leak and I was only able to get a few pics in before it died. Quite annoying – but now that Mike is here, we’ll head over again next week, so I’ll be able to put up some pics, since I have replaced the Olympus with the latest model.

All in all, it was a great day. Tons of things to see and do. Nice food, lots of it, and nice beach chairs, palapas, drinks…
Seldom does something so hyped, so talked about, so advertised, live up to it’s reputation. But DePalm Island delivered. It’s the coolest thing we’ve done so far! It’s definitely worth a repeat visit.