BOB'S SNORKELING ADVENTURES

While on vacation in Puerto Morelos, Mexico, Bob would go snorkeling twice a day. He would chart his course and let Sam know where he was beginning and ending his adventure for “Treasure and Trash” hunting. He found a variety of things such as sunglasses, masks, snorkels, shoes, room keys, clothing, money, drinking glasses, syringes, rope, metal, broken glass windows, etc. He also saw a variety of fish including barracuda, star fish, and stingrays. His special fish spotting was a “Lionfish”.


The Lionfish is a beautiful fish. Bob came back from snorkeling and was telling our friends from Argentina about his find. The next day Lourdes and Peteco went on a snorkeling trip to Isla Mujeres. They were talking to the captain of the boat about the possibility of lionfish being in the waters. The captain gave them an in-depth explanation about the lionfish. He told them that in 1992 Hurricane Andrew in Florida destroyed a fish aquarium that had a half dozen lionfish in it. These lionfish got into the Atlantic. The fish made their way over the years to the Caribbean. The lionfish multiply very rapidly, laying 30,000 eggs two to three times per year. Lionfish are predators and nothing will eat them. They have venomous spines. The Mexican government will pay $100 for each live lionfish so they can study them. However, the government wants them dead. Many of the local marinas organize lionfish hunts.

When Lourdes and Peteco told Bob all of this information, he wanted to go out and hunt this fish. Of course, he wanted the lionfish alive; he wanted to collect his $100. Each day Bob would look in the same place for the fish; each day it was there. Since he didn’t have the proper equipment, Bob decided not to catch the fish. Instead he enjoyed his daily adventure of finding it.