Saturday, October 18, 2014

Day 5 was exhausting. I slept for 8 hours for the first time in I don't know how many weeks, or months. Nuria has been asleep for 10 hours so far.

So today, well yesterday, was by far the best weather we've had so far. When I woke up the sky was clear and it stayed thst way all day. We had our trip to the massive natural reserve so it couldn't have been a better day to have great weather.

The trip started with an almost two hour jeep ride to get deep into the reserve. There were two couples to a jeep so we let the other couple drive first. Bad idea. Nuria got carsick.  Once we made it to the boat ride, the second part, she was a little bit better. We saw all kinds of birds, sea turtles, wild dolphins and the coral reef here. After that we went to eat and Nuria got worse and didn't eat anything. We got back in the boats and headed back to the jeeps.

My turn to drive now. Bad thing though because Nuria was sick and it had rained on the trail so now there were even more giant potholes and small lakes to drive through. Oh yeah, it was nighttime because two jeeps broke down on the way and we had to wait while they tried to fix them. Needless to say it was a long, dark, bumpy road on the way back.

We left the resort at 8 am and got back at 8:30 pm. It was a long day. Nuria went straight to bed and I watched some tv and ordered room service for dinner before crashing at 10:30.

And the fish from the other day wasn't a barracuda. We saw some and asked our guide and he said that they were needlefish and that they weren't dangerous. At that same moment a bunch of barracuda popped up and he said but "those are!"

This was a very short summary of the day. We did and saw so many things today that it would take some time to actually sit down and write it all out. It was truly an amazing experience to be out in the middle of the Caribbean sea on a tiny boat looking at giant sea turtles and wild dolphins!

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