We arrived on the Caribbean coast with about 10 days left before we have to fly home! Therefore we decided we would turn this part of our6monthsoff into a holiday, not moving around too much and staying in one place would hopefully be really relaxing...
First order of business, a great hostel. La Casa de Felipe fits that criteria and the attached resturant run by chef Dominique is truely awesome!
Sarah enjoying the fresh fruit smoothies and one of the best stakes we have had in South America! They even had dauphinois!
We relaxed for two days, going to the beach and eating steak every night.
However with the cheapest place in the world to do the PADI open water course on our doorstep we thought it would be rude not to sign up for the three day program.
We signed up with Octopus Dive Center (yes that is how it is spelt Mum!) who were great and like a big family.
Getting ready for our first dive
Naturals
Not quite as much as the Galapagos, but still some very cool stuff
Six dives completed, now it's onto the written test
Of course we passed, Fernando was our teacher, and if Sarah could understand the hand signals she could have had a free night dive. I wasn't even close to the prizes, but I still passed!
Three days of exhaustion, get us back to the beach. Tyrona national park here we come.
This is an incredible national park and we had a great time sleeping in the hammocks and chilling out on the deserted island beaches.
Then we arrived at this beach and we forgot how long we had been walking for
Accomodation for the night
Sarah practicing to see if it was possible to sleep in a hammock
All settled we had two days to sit back and enjoy the scenery.
Not sure what's going on near the waters edge...
Sarah so excited to be at the beach!!!
We had such a relaxing time at Tyrona and met some great people. However on our only night there, on what we thought was a relatively calm night, a 30 metre tall palm tree fell on a tent with a man inside. Incredibly, luckily he wasn't seriously hurt but the screams from the guy trapped under the palm tree were terrifying. At least in our group alone, there were two doctors!
These palm trees are HUGE!
The next morning
With time not on our side, we decided against the arduous hike and bus back in favour of the 40 minute speedboat. Good job we don't get seasick as it was like the captain was trying to break his PB during a mild storm. However once he moved a couple of people around to help with the areodynamics of the boat through the air things got a lot "smoother".
Next stop Minca!
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