Bill and I enjoying a good Skype call
I began the morning with my daily fix (well, almost daily) of reading the news on-line. While busy checking out sports pages and news about Obama’s being installed as the 44th President of the U.S.A., I got connected with brother-in-law, Bill. As I mentioned earlier, Skype is our preferred means of keeping in touch with family and friends, as we get to hear their voices. I tried taking a snapshot of our video connection and the result is displayed on the left.
Once I was done with the Skype call, I downloaded Google Earth so that I could locate the exact position of our villa. Surprisingly, I found the villa. I never would have been able to do this if I hadn’t walked most of the area. Landmarks helped me locate the villa. I put a yellow pin on the villa. You will see three rows of trees just before the villa, these are all palm trees in our back yard.
Resting flycatcher
Now, back to recapping our day yesterday. Our guests left us about noon, but before they left, we went out taking some photos. Bird photos became a bit interesting as we saw our first flycatchers. Amazingly, we actually got a few pictures.
We also spotted a different kind of bird which I can’t identify as I don’t have a bird book available. I know I could do some research on the web to solve that issue, but I am too lazy for that. If anyone is interested in doing the work, they can let me know what it is.
A mamey fruit that is hanging in a mamey tree
After saying good-bye to our company, we continued our walk through the village where we saw a mamey tree with fruit still hanging. Since this is now one of Maureen’s favourites, it was neat to see.
Further along on our walk we came across this iguana which was different from the others we have seen. As you can see, this one was almost black where the others had been a light gray in colour.
In the late afternoon we went for yet aother walk, one that took us quite a ways to the east, further than we had yet walked in that direction. Just as we turned to walk back, we came across some guys (Mexican) who had benn busy working on a site earlier, now trying to get some coconuts off a tree. They offered us a coconut for juice. When I told them we didn’t have any money with us, they basically said it was no problem and gave us both a coconut for juice. When I mentioned about “la pulpa” the actual white coconut meat, the guy cutting the coconuts pointed to one of the other coconuts and then proceeded to clean it up and then give it to us. It was quite the experience. Lucky for us an English speaking foreigner came upon the scene and lent us ten pesos which we gave to the men as thanks for the three coconuts. Another experience and another chance to learn and improve my Spanish.
you seem to be in a nice location according to the picture. When does it warm up enough to start swimming in the ocean? Also, is that fruit normal for the area and how does it taste?
I have been going out swimming quite often. It is already warm enough. Only on the windy days when the water is too choppy do we not head into the sea for a dip.