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Luke and I had a reservation to go kite surfing yesterday (Sunday), but the instructor called us and said it was too calm and the wind wouldn’t be able to lift us, so we rescheduled for next week. Instead, we took advantage of the fact that there were almost no waves, thus making the water clearer than it had ever been here, and Luke, Devin, and I went snorkeling around the breakwater at the end of the peninsula. (The breakwater is a narrow strip of sand that goes out into the ocean from the point and, at hightide, waves come over the sandbar from both sides at the same time and meet in the middle.)

I don’t really know how to describe how awesomely clear the water was, so your just going to have to check out the pictures. But I do want to say that there was a Clemson Fish. (Named this by Luke) It was fluorescent orange and purple, and really hard to get a picture of. So cool. It was a bit cold, but we couldn’t make ourselves leave until almost two hours had passed. I had no idea water could be so clear so close to the beach. In South Carolina, we had to go 25 miles offshore before it got clear. Here, we just walked in and it was perfect.