Some Egg Action…

I haven’t bothered with an egg tree every year but this year my Harry Lauder’s Walking Stick  died and its branches make the perfect egg tree…

 

I haven’t dyed eggs every year either but this year I needed an activity to do with my grandchildren during an overnight…

And finally…I rarely had an egg hunt here when my children were young because my parents always held one at their house.  Now I am the grandparent and the egg hunt was here…

And now to eat all those hard-boiled and chocolate eggs.

Our Puerto Rico Vacation – Day 4…

Because of the mountains, one side of Puerto Rico has rain forests and the other side has dry forests.  On our fourth day we hiked in the dry forest of  Guanica…Bosque Seco de Guanica

Quite different than our walk at the botanical gardens or later in the rain forest of El Yunque.

Wild cotton grows everywhere…

…and cactus…

…and flowers.

Once we hiked high enough we had views of the sea.

Most things I took photos of I don’t know the names of…but I managed to get more photos of birds there than on any other of our  hikes…

When we reached the end of the hike we were rewarded with this scene, a most welcome breeze, and another great picnic…

After the hot hike we were very happy to spend the afternoon at the beach…

Our Puerto Rico Vacation…Day 3

La Parguera is on the Caribbean and we spent one entire day on and in the water.   Just a short walk from the paradore we met our guide and climbed into kayaks for a morning of paddling through the mangroves. 

I videoed part of the trip while letting Mr O do all the paddling.

The rest of the day we snorkeled and at night we went swimming in a bio-luminescent bay…magical… but some things I just couldn’t photograph…

Our Puerto Rico Vacation…La Parguera

The next few days we spent in the southwestern seaside village of La Parguera. I was dubious about the hotel that had been booked for us but when we got there I immediately fell in love with it….

The Parador Villa Parguera is a paradore, or country inn, and is not fancy but is comfortable.   This is what we saw from our room on the evening we arrived…

…and this is what we saw outside our room in the morning…

It is the kind of place families go  to…

I won’t write about the food there though…There were some good things…like an octopus salad that was offered one evening…but in general the food  was just ok.

The village itself was very quiet while we were there, in fact horses and chickens had the run of the roads……maybe it is busier during the weekend.

We walked a up and down the streets with the camera one evening…

 

I admit that I will never be a great photographer because I am too self-conscious when taking photos…There were several shots in this town I would have taken if it weren’t for being too uncomfortable.  I am trying to work on that…