Ultimate Adventure in the Gulf of Mexico

We woke up nice and early to be on time (literally, smack bang on time - I couldn't believe it) for our cruise on a catamaran out to do some snorkelling, jetskiing, parasailing and various other activities on the water. Also included was breakfast, lunch, drinks, and once all the activities involving machines were over, free booze! All this for $139 (and it also included another 2 hour 'sunset cruise' which was also included free booze - pretty bloody good deal!).

The snorkelling wasn't the best I've done, with water visibility quite low due to the choppiness of the sea. This is probably due to the fact that there are storms out over the ocean nearly every evening. Still managed to see barracudas every time you turned around, a couple of sharks and some stingrays.

The wind picked up making it near impossible to hold down your plate for lunch, but quickly after, we were ushered off in our group to go parasailing, the first time I've done it. You only got about 10 minutes up there, but it was still pretty amazing to see a view over much of key west and a good look over the Gulf (don't worry folks, the oil spill hasn't made it down to Key West yet, no oil in sight).

Tearing up the jetskis was next, another thing I'd never done before. Trying to throw Lukas off the back of the jetski was the aim, and I came close, but not quite.

Then came the water activites: a giant rock climbing mountain floating in the ocean, along with a giant slide and a giant trampoline. Lots of fun was had with the other people from the trip, particularly on the rock climbing mountain, where there were numerous times people accidentally 'slipped' or lost their balance and fell into the water.

The day ended (it goes for about 6.5 hours) and we ended up back on dryland, a couple of hours to kill until our sunset cruise was to depart. Big shoutout to the crew at FURY (http://www.furycat.com/) who were the ones who took us out for the day. They did an awesome job and if anyone ever heads to Key West, definately hit these guys up. Chilled out, ever helpful, and not really much of a dull moment on the boat. The trip out to the reefs didn't take long at all, and there is generally always something happening whilst on board, so you're not waiting for long periods at a time for something to do.