Friday, May 8, 2009
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Los Testigos and Blanquilla
These are our first two islands we went to and we loved them both. We had to do an overnight passage to get to each of them.
Los testigos
This was our first land fall after we left Grenada. We anchored outside of their little village and went into check in. The room we went into had a thousand flies and they all tried landing on our heads. The coast guard gave us two nights on the island and then we would have to move on to the next island. We went back to the boat and moved up to the nothern end of the island. The water in Los Testigos is coming from the out flow of the Orancle river so the water was all green. Not very nice. Once we got there we pumped up the dinghy and and went to the beach. While mom and I were swimming we saw some thing that looked like a garbage bag, but where was the garbage bage coming from we were the only boat there? Thats when we saw the red rim and we freaked out, a jelly fish! Later we learned that these jelly fish don't sting. :)
Blanquilla
We had another day like that then we moved on to Blanquilla. This islands tallest height is 50 ft tall. Never seen such a flat island. The beaches were all light pink and there were two lone palm trees. We went for a snorkel and found yet anthoer beach even more pretty than the other. The next day we came back and took a walk at the other end of the beach where there was shell fossils. This was very beautiful.
Later I will post a blog about Los Roques...
Los testigos
This was our first land fall after we left Grenada. We anchored outside of their little village and went into check in. The room we went into had a thousand flies and they all tried landing on our heads. The coast guard gave us two nights on the island and then we would have to move on to the next island. We went back to the boat and moved up to the nothern end of the island. The water in Los Testigos is coming from the out flow of the Orancle river so the water was all green. Not very nice. Once we got there we pumped up the dinghy and and went to the beach. While mom and I were swimming we saw some thing that looked like a garbage bag, but where was the garbage bage coming from we were the only boat there? Thats when we saw the red rim and we freaked out, a jelly fish! Later we learned that these jelly fish don't sting. :)
Blanquilla
We had another day like that then we moved on to Blanquilla. This islands tallest height is 50 ft tall. Never seen such a flat island. The beaches were all light pink and there were two lone palm trees. We went for a snorkel and found yet anthoer beach even more pretty than the other. The next day we came back and took a walk at the other end of the beach where there was shell fossils. This was very beautiful.
Later I will post a blog about Los Roques...
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