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there's not a great deal of activities on offer on the paradisical caribbean island containing playa blanca off the north coast of colombia. you can chill out in a hammock, go swimming, snorkelling or running along the beach. i chose to do all but the last of these and had a great time. the snorkelling was particularly fun as the sea level constantly changed from a couple of metres to between 8-10. the landscape and creatures under the water also changed and it was cool to go out exploring. i was with my french friend, and as we started to venture further out he kept stopping and asking me if i could see the jellyfish. i couldn't, and didn't know what he was talking about until about 15 minutes when it felt like someone had flicked a light switch in my head and they suddenly appeared to me. everywhere. we were surrounded by them. they weren't particularly big, and so transparent that even after seeing them i still struggled to keep them focused before i'd lose them again. but it was enough to make me nervous. i knew that i must have been swimming and pushing through them for at least 10 minutes, so they can't have been particularly dangerous, but they're still probably the second small animal that i least want to encounter in the water. since you asked the first is a sea snake, oh and i saw one of those as well. despite these scary, slimy inhabitants i still had a really fun time exploring below sea level - and find it far preferable to pegging it up and down a scorching beach.

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