Back in 2013, we went on a trip to the Caribbean via cruise ship, this meant that we got the chance to stop at a lot of locations along the way and not just go to the same country. We went to a lot of different places such as St Lucia, St Marteen and Antigua. When you are part of a cruise, they have options to do various excursions at each location and we did one at most of the stops including one that sort of was a bucket list item for me – Swimming With Turtles.

We were in Barbados and we had to go on a Catamaran to get to the said Turtles in which we were going to swim with. The turtles we were going to meet were wild so it meant that we had to be sure we didn’t scare them or disturb them from their normal daily routines.

We got to the area of water in which we were going to swim with the turtles and it was really easy to see them before even entering the water – they are a playful bunch of animals and are happy little chappies and I think they are used to having humans near them.

We put on our snorkels and entered the sea and it was amazing – seeing animals like that in their natural environment is such a breathtaking experience. They are such gentle giants and watching them in the sea is such a beautiful and calming experience.

One of the things that was amazing about watching the Sea Turtles is that sometimes they decide to swim towards you. More then once i had to raise my legs to let the turtles pass and they even rubbed their back of their shells on my legs.

It was such a surreal experience and one that I would love to do again.