Today started brighter and warmer and after breakfast and private time together, Bob and I walked to Pika Point where we found a neat little hostel, restaurant and surf joint where we had drinks—Bob beer and I diet coke. On the way, we birded, finding many creeks, coral patches, 1 variegated squirrel and what not that I photographed to my heart’s content. By the time we returned, we were both hot and sweaty and ready for the pool. But our key didn’t work. Once in the pool, Bob found a dead grasshopper bigger than my hand. I suggested he show the two young girls who called their brother and sister to come look. The kids attacked it with splashing, trying to make it move away from the edge—the corpse was soon floating mid pool where it was hard to avoid. I splashed it to the edge where Bob picked it up and through it out—ick. It did not come back to life, poor thing. This time the kids took our inclusion of them in the episode as an okay for them to get into the adult pool where they played and soon began running and jumping into it. The pool is plenty big and it didn’t affect us a bit. The hotel is much busier now.
After a shower and dressing, we took a taxi into town. The taxis act like part of the bus system, cost is $1 to town per person. The taxi already had three people in it when we got on board, one departed soon, the other two and their bike delivered near the airport. The taxi driver waited while Bob got cash and then suggested Pirates for dinner (since this is Sunday and not everyone is open). That sounded fine to me since it was on the water and had a varied menu. It turned out Pirates was crowded but soon the crowd left and was replaced by another crowd. Bob ordered his usual drink of a whole lime squeezed, gin and hielo (ice) and one for me. The drink was pretty stiff and I forgot to order the bottle of water I wanted since I felt quite parched. I gave my drink to Bob when the waitress came back and got water and a sangria—they think the wine with pineapple and I think pineapple juice and it was quite sweet but I soon got used to it while drinking water. Bob ordered lobster (only $25) with French fries and salad and I had fried shrimp with rice and a plate of limon. I couldn’t finish my rice and skipped all the beans, but the salad was very good. Bob added an additional $5 tip to the waitress that pleased her immensely. When we left, I teased Bob that his hat didn’t make him look more sober so he asked the table next to us and one guy said, you look fine but I don’t know about her. We all laughed.
We found no taxis on the street but across the street from Pirates was a small grocery where we found M&Ms, potato chips, mina’s, and cashews. I wanted supplies in case we actually get to go on a tour tomorrow.
We returned to our room and the deck but soon found downstairs by the pool a better choice to write.
Birds:
Great-tailed Grackle, Bananaquit, Great Kiskadee, Amazon Kingfisher, Tropical Peewee, House Wren, Redbreasted Blackbird (out of range, short tail), Groove-billed Ani, Panama Flycatcher, Blueblack Grassquit, Passerini’s Tanager, Spotted Sandpiper, Great Black Hawk, Magnificent Frigatebird, Belted Kingfisher, Turkey Vulture, Wilson’s Plover, Willet (breeding colors), Variable Seedeater (Caribbean slope colors), Blackpoll Warbler
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