Botanical Gardens

Another beautiful walk on the beach this morning.

Today right after breakfast we headed straight out for a snorkel.  It has been very windy here for the last few days, especially in the afternoon.  It was an amazing snorkel this morning, like we were in a dream. 

Back to our casita and got changed to walk to the botanical gardens.  This was a nice change today, but oh so hot.  We had walked to St. Anthonys before, and this was just a little past.  We walked the beach and up to stairs to the front desk of St. Anthonys, only to find out that you can’t exit here, back down to the beach and along the road.  Didn’t need those extra stairs.

Got to the Botanical Garden, we said if there were lots of tour busses there we were turning around.  No tour busses, find out that they visit there in the morning, and there is only one other couple somewhere in the gardens, which we never did see.  There is a short circular path to see the bottom section of the gardens, then a fairly steep uphill climb that is best not done in flipflops unless you are 16 to a pretty lookout.  Back to the bottom and there are 2 workers preparing little samples of pure chocolate for the tour busses tomorrow, they were nice and let us try some.  Liam has been our tour guide up to now, so it is nice to see some real workers.  Our tour guide Liam threw a lot of stones around, and didn’t give us much valid information on the trees and plants, no tip for him.

Busy day on the beach

View from lookout at Botanical Gardens

Walked back along the beach and stopped at Jolly Octopus for some delicious lunch and perhaps the best mango margaritas ever.  We talked the waiter into making them for us, they were amazing.

Back to Puerta Azul and it is approaching sunset.  Andre and Liam went to the casita to make us drinks to have on the dock and watch the sunset.  We really haven’t had amazing sunsets here.  The family from New York are back from fishing, they had much better luck than Andre and Liam earlier in the week, they are having fish for supper tonight.  But they did put 7 hours in on the boat, which I don’t think either Andre or Liam would have survived.