Sunday, our day off

Sunday, our day off....we were so lucky...it was a beautiful sunny day.

We all made our way around the beach to these boats that would take us on our next adventure! We were 3 boats in total with about 10-12 of us on each boat. They actually made us where life jackets - so of which were those old fashion bright orange ones that you put around your neck! We looked pretty funny!

So off we went. The bow of the boat was so high up that there was one guy at the front directing while the other guy was at the back streering the motor boat.

Our first destination was The Jeannette Kawas National Park. She was an environmentalist who was murdered while trying to preserve the land. We piled out of the boats and headed into the forest. Pretty cool. Very little light at the bottom of the forest as the trees and branches prevented much sunlight getting through. We walked single file just looking up, all around soaking it all in.

We ended up on a remote beach, enjoyed the view and then headed up a small trail over a mini mountain to other side where the boats picked us up. While we were hiking up and over we heard howler monkeys - they are loud!!! Very loud! I turned around and went back down until I could see them. There were several of them all flying around in the trees. Scott had already gone ahead of me so he got to see another group of monkeys. I tried ot take pictures, but with my little camera and the lack of light they didn't come out very well.

Back in the boats we went around a peninsula and back to the most beautiful beach we'd seen yet. Blue/green waters, white, white sandy beach and nothing but two small shacks. Just dreamy!

Out of the boats we got again, found changing rooms amongst the banana trees (and more monkeys). Put out towels and then headed in the water for a swim. Beautiful! Refreshing! Just perfect!

Some people brought snorkeling stuff and Tim was so nice and offered to take Scott snorkeling with him. Off they went....and I found by towel and started to really work on my tan.

Perhaps 15 minutes later I could see Tim carrying Scott (yes, carrying!) down the beach. Scott was screaming, and I mean screaming! As they got closer I could see that there was some blood on his knee. So, I assumed that he had scraped his knee on the coral. He kept on screaming, wouldn't stop. "It hurts! It's killing me! There is poison in my knee!".

I was getting a little frustrated that he wasn't calming down. I thought it was just a minor scrape and couldn't understand why he was still crying 30 minutes later.

Our time on that beach was up. Back in the boats to another beach where the local Garifuna made us a great lunch. Scott of course couldn't really enjoy it - he was still in so much pain. We were so lucky that someone had a benedryl and a couple advils. That was very lucky - as what we found out later is that coral stings! Each sting is like multiple bee stings - and he had TWO! No wonder he was in so much pain. Poor guy...and to think I kept telling him to relax and stop crying.

The benedryl knocked him out and he slept the entire hour and half boat ride back to Tela. Once back, we headed to the beach and just relaxed there in the sun for another hour - the pain had subsided a bit so we just read.

It was a great day (even with the coral stings) and we got to see an entirely new side of Honduras!