![]() Sandra ready for beautiful a day on the boat of Fernando. Who is an old school friend of Sandra. | ![]() |
![]() Leaving Pedregal, the port of David at the pacific coast, we | ![]() traveled for about an hour through the mangroves towards the Pacific. |
![]() You can cleary see that it was low tide. | ![]() Many muddy rivers. |
![]() This picture gives a good impression of the landscape, still miles away from the ocean. | |
![]() There is hardly anybody with the exception of some local fishermen. | ![]() The captain (Cappy) had to keep a sharp eye on the depth. |
![]() At the back, in the center, you see Volcan Baru. We live halfway on the left slope. | |
![]() Fernando and me. | ![]() Fernando with Sandra. |
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![]() Slowly the mangroves start opening into the ocean. | |
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![]() The small port of Boca Chica (Small Mouth). | ![]() The resort of Karl, a famous German in the area. |
![]() The girls taking a tropical sunbath. | |
![]() Me shooting pictures of the thousands of small islands. | |
![]() Entering the open ocean on our way to the Island of Gámes. | |
![]() Arriving at our paradise like destination. | |
![]() | ![]() Myself, with the help of the captain, grilled the Madoera marinated porc chops, ![]() and served them in a floating tupperware to Fernando and the ladies in the ocean. |
![]() They liked it ! | |
![]() Fernando promised us dolphins. | ![]() And there they were. |
![]() Just in front of the bow they swam with the utmost ease. | ![]() Every 2 minutes, they come up and breath hard throught that hole on their back. |
![]() You can see the water was cristal clear. | |
![]() These two stayed with us till......... | |
![]() we got close to the main land. | |
![]() And, all of the sudden one went left and | ![]() one went right and both disappeared into the vast ocean. |
![]() After the dolphin emotion Sandra fed everybody with her Waldorf salad. | ![]() Without grapes, because I forgot to buy them the day before. |
![]() Then, after a beautiful day a very quite tropical evening set in and we all prepaired for a quite ride through the mangroves back to Pedregal. | |
![]() But we had to rescue a liitle fishermen's boat that set in the middle of the water with polluted fuel. | |
![]() We towed it till their rescuer came with fresh fuel. | |
![]() Everybody settled in to enjoy a beautiful and spectacular sunset. | |
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![]() Just enjoy the show of nature. | |
![]() Every color of the rainbow was thrown at us. | |
![]() Every 5 minutes the view was totally different. | |
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![]() Some, never get tired and.... | ![]() some were very tired. |
![]() And, off course, Fernando, had all his girls taking care of him. :-) | |
![]() It was a great day, ¡ GRACIAS Fernando ! | |