Back? Good, because the song totally exemplifies San Pedro. It is really pretty. We’ve settled into our hotel nicely. Basically it is 14 rooms built around a pool and a beach bar. The bar is great; everyone congregates there in the morning and night. We are planning on fishing on Tuesday and we will most likely do a big bar-b-que for all the guests that want to participate. The Squirrel’s Nest is the name of the bar and it is 100% what you would envision from a Caribbean beach bar. Locals and people from other hotels always swing in from the beach side and stop in for a drink or four.
We arrived on Saturday and went to town for dinner. The city is pretty quiet. It seems like a theme for us but this is the second vacation where we are in a really nice area and it is pretty much a ghost town. It is not as sparsely populated as Croatia was, but a lot of the restaurants and even some hotels are closed for the slow season.
Sunday we hung out at the Squirrel’s nest in the morning and in the afternoon we went snorkeling. As you saw earlier in our pictures, the reef is literally only 200 -400 yards out from the coastline. The boat for the snorkeling comes right up to the hotel dock and picks you up. And you make two stops for snorkeling in about 2.5 hours. We were able to snorkel with sharks. They are nurse shards, so they are bottom feeders and not aggressive. Good thing as the biggest of the 7 or 8 we saw up close was 9 feet long. Basically they look like those big algae eaters everyone has in their aquarium (placo’s or whatever the official name is).
As we didn’t sport for the underwater camera, I have no pictures to show you. Which is too bad as we also saw manta rays and lots of colorful fish on the reef. Here is a picture of myself on the boat and then Paty getting out of the boat. It was pretty small and the ‘group’ for our excursion was us and one other couple.
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Sounds relaxing. Hope you are having a great time!
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