The topic as of late in my life reinvention, has been -What do I want to do when I grow up?
What could I possibly do that would nourish me, and pay the bills?
What could I possibly do that would nourish me, and pay the bills?
I want to swim with the fishes.
Not just any fishes. Whale sharks.They migrate once a year from somewhere to somewhere along the yucatan peninsula, and it just so happened the whale sharks were in Mexico this summer at the same time we were.
What a coincidence!
It was one of my most amazing life experiences EVER... And I have a had a really cool life.
We took a cab at 6am for a 2 hour ride to a marina. We took a speed boat for another 2 hours waaaaay out into the middle of the ocean. We found a pod of about 30 whale sharks that were bigger than our boats, like 30-40 ft long, 75-100 years old.We put on snorkels, masks and fins.....
and jumped in to swim with them.
For hours, we finned along side of them, our hearts racing, we'd look beside us to have another one coming toward us, we'd swim along that one, catching its current.....we'd come up for a break, and then jump back in for more...I didn't want that day to end. I cried as we sped away from these beautiful prehistoric giants.
So when I grow up, I want to swim with the whale sharks. For three months out of the year, I will move to Mexico, work for twelve days, then get one off, then work twelve more...for about $1 US/hr plus tips.
