We don’t often snorkel at Playa Kenepa Grandi, sometimes just called Playa Grandi. It’s supposed to be the most photographed beach on Curacao. It is easy to see why. It is very picturesque, with a long sandy beach and beautifully colored water. There is a small snack bar, a pay shower, bathrooms and lots of beach chairs. It is very busy most days, and today (Monday, November 28) was no exception.

The coral is not great, but there are lots of varieties of fish. We saw a big school of squid. We used to see squid a lot, but not so much anymore. The ones we’ve seen have been quite small, but these were the largest we’ve seen this year. Nice to see. But today’s highlight was an eagle ray.

It’s not often we get to swim with eagle rays. Usually, we see them for just a minute or two and they swim off at a high rate of speed. This time, we swam with this guy for a long time, probably 20 minutes. And it only ended because we got tired of chasing him around. He seemed to take great delight in swimming in a circle about three hundred meters around! Round and round we’d go, I’m sure he just wanted to see how long we’d chase him.