It was nice waking up knowing we could lounge about and take our time since our destination was just 15 miles away. Our destination location is special because the proximity to one of the only bioluminescent bays in the world.
As early risers, we were up before most… enjoying the quietness of the morning. It was a big contrast from the night before. The street, 6 feet from our room door was extremely loud and rowdy. The hotel room came with an apology note and earplugs for the probably that the typical behavior would occur…. and it did!
Tim looks forward to his daily sunrise grounding and Qichong …. today on the beach.
Our breakfast was across from the ocean in a village of container food shops. Fun location and so many locals in line that we knew it would be good.
A morning stretch… no actually just lifting the panel to their shop while I secured the support.
Surfers 🏄 and fishmen enjoying the morning waves.
Once on our bikes, we experienced warm weather and a variety of different environments of Puerto Rico.
At one point when we stopped to make adjustments, I spotted these two iguanas in action. By the time my phone was out for a photo op… she was already on the get-away.
11:11 shot of the day- we forgot this yesterday. But the idea is not to look for a good photo opt, it is just to show what we are seeing at that moment in time. Today at 11:11 Tim was fixing his mirror in the shade of an auto painting business. BTW… the high temp again today is 83 degrees with humidity - warm enough to seek out the shade.
Yesterday and again today we saw a lot of these huge clay-like nests in lots of trees. These nests are commonly at least 4’ across are built by arboreal termites!
Lots of bamboo along the rural roads… some groves seem very old and densely packed.
We made to our destination… and were super thrilled to be able to acquire our room over 3 hours before check-in. It is so much nicer to stroll the area without bikes and out of sweaty cycling shorts.
Tim is enjoying his chicken chatting time. 🐓🐥
A mango mojito and a pina mojito were our drinks of choice to go with our delicious fish tacos. 🌮😋
The bioluminescent lagoon experience is a HUGE tourist attraction here. There are at least 6 tour companies in this small town! One of the most important things is to go when there is as little moonlight as possible. Tiny organisms called dinoflagellates light up the water with a blue-green glow, almost like a spark when it is stirred by a hand or a paddle. Our group had 10 double kayaks, but there must have at least 60 additional kayaks with the other groups. For us, the best part of the adventure was kayaking single file through a narrow passage lined with mangroves and other tropical trees, the canopy so dense it was hard to see the sky.
As we were returning through the narrow passageway we encountered a couple more kayak groups making their way towards the bioluminescent lagoon! In the darkness it was a bit tricky to maneuver past each other and not bump into the mangroves edging their way into the passage. Total kayak journey was almost 4 miles.
We were very pleased that our hotel was only a 5 minute walk from the kayak put in site.
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