Cuba (by Kaylee)

WE. ARE. IN. CUBA! We had another really calm crossing, this time from Caymans to Cuba, and are sitting in an anchorage behind a reef. This is actually our third day in Cuba and our first two days we spent at the marina, getting checked in and getting some Cuban money (or actually, getting some of the Cuban tourist money called CUC, pronounced “kūk”, the real Cuban money is called pesos but tourists are not supposed to use those, although one of the check in guys gave  me some for my coin collection). Cayo Largo is a resort island and none of the cubans are aloud to live there. So we are now in the “anchorage” behind the reef. I say “anchorage” because it’s not actually an anchorage, we are just anchoring here because it is supposed to have good coral, and as we found out yesterday there are hundreds of conch. We made conch salad.

Yesterday a pod of dolphins came up right next to us and I got to swim with them. They didn’t let me touch them but it was fun watching them swim around me and feel there squeaks and clicks bounce off of me in the water. It was amazing how strong the sounds where and I could tell when they where close. The pod had split up into two groups so I only saw half of the dolphins , there where two babies and three adults, the babies would come and blow bubbles at me and look at me upside-down. They loved it when I went below the surface, pointed my snorkel at them, and blew a hard stream of bubbles, making them twirl around. the dolphins would swim in circles and dash at the bubbles that I blew.
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Today we are staying in this so called anchorage and are waiting for a weather window to go to to main land Cuba.