Whales

Tuesday we woke up and it was raining and cloudy so we decided to visit a local park which apparently had a display of cacti and a rainforest experience. However, things didn't exactly go to plan. As we set off a warning light came on in the car, and we had to stop by the road, and use google translate on my phone to translate both the warning message and the relevant bit of the manual. In the end, we decided to drive back to the airport and go to the car hire people. One of them looked at the message, grovelled under the front seats armed with nothing but a pair of scissors, and seemed to fix it!

Then we got to the park to find it derelict and obviously closed. So, we carried on to Los Gigantes, for which the last 11 kilometres we descended a very steep, very windy road with sheer drops to the sea below. My favourite sort of road, and one of the longest 11 kilometres I'd ever spent. Half way down we met a bus coming up which was unfortunately mainly on our side of the road. How we didn't hit it or go over the edge I don't know, there must have been inches in it. Eventually we got to the town, and too late I remembered the road by the harbour which is not quite wide enough for two cars, and with a drop into the sea with nothing protecting it. I had to get out and walk whilst Stu drove down it. If anyone was going in the water, it wasn't going to be me

We managed to find a boat trip going out at the right time, and set off to see whales, and see them we did, a school of pilot whales, some with  babies, after about 40 mins of travelling. I took a lot of pictures of the sea to get a good one of a whale, they're very quick.

Then we came back, and had lunch by the harbour, before setting off to drive back along the coast, avoiding the windy road this time, and got back for dinner in the Italian restaurant in the resort, and then sat in the outside bar listening to the singer.  This bar is new this year, and its great. Just keeping the biting insects away can be a bit of a problem.The mohitos are pretty good through.


We spent Wednesday by the pool, armed with books and several new audiobooks and albums on my iPad. It was cloudy but very warm, and I completely misjudged how strong the sun was and got a burnt tummy! Stu swam several laps round the pool.

On Wednesday evening we walked to San Blas again. Same restaurant, where I had the same gorgeous strawberries in amaretto I'd had the other night. Stu reckoned they lasted about 20 seconds. Then back to the bar which has become of a bit of a regular thing. There's a singer very night who plays an assortment of keyboards, and sings almost anything, he's very good. We had a request tonight for Halleluiah by Leonard Cohen, and although he didn't know the words, he played the tune  for us.