Planes and Ghost Fish

So the blog is back for a limited time only. Both my avid readers will be delighted. I am no longer in Tasmania, or even in Australia. This adventure finds my brother and I stranded in Tobago, miles away from civilization. Seriously, we're pretty remote hear. But I'll get to that.
Today we woke up so early that it really counted as very late (4:00 am). We got to JFK and were shocked that there was pretty rigorous scheduling for Caribbean Airlines.

There is a hummingbird on a the tail

You think they'd be all about Island Time. Turns out the scheduling was all for show. Our plane took off really late. Yay. Not great organization by the airlines. ANYWAY, the flight was pretty painless, kind of dozing and listening to music the entire time. Then our family split ways. My parents went off on a wild adventure to go birding. My brother and I were hopping on another plane to get to Tobago. There was quite a layover for our twenty minute flight. Literally twenty minutes; they didn't even let us take our seat belts off. I took a picture of the sunset when we got off the plane...and got yelled at. Something about taking photos at airports

So now you can all see the details of Tobago's airport secrets!

So we then get in a car and ride for an hour and a half into "the country," which you can kind of read as the middle of nowhere on the more remote island of a small island nation. It took that long because it was long and windy the entire way. This windiness made Jonah almost throw up in the back of the car. He survived, but thought it was worth mentioning. We checked in and everything went swimmingly, except we didn't actually go into the water yet. diving starts tomorrow. yes i'm too excited for words so I wont even try. I did have my first animal experience of the trip. I was walking out on the dock around 7:45, and suddenly I see movement in front of me. The place is literally crawling with crabs. They were about as brave and aggressive as sir Robin. And it was dark so pictures yet. I'll work on that. Also check facebook for more.
So ghost fish. There are lights in the water by the dock probably to help them when they're setting up for night dives. I don't think there were any tonight, but as i was having fun chasing crabs I saw that there were things swimming in the water. These things were fish...duh. But they all had a kind of whitish hue because of the green back light and moved too quickly for me to identify any of them. Thus they are ghost fish. Hopefully I'll have more and better stories/pictures as the week continues