Doce día en paraíso!

         Day 12 and Sharon's got me up at the crack of dawn and out the door for our morning walk. Not really, I just wanted to say that! The days do "seem" long, so we are not burning the midnight oil--usually I'm the one with the heavy eyes--I have generally set curfew at 9 PM (not that it is always observed). We set out today on a dirt road headed to the south of our hotel; again, jungle surrounded our path as we meandered along the road, avoiding depressions, washed out areas and rocks or puddles. I wasn't up to full operational status as back kink was hampering full speed attainment. Per standard operational procedure, I was sweating, so I was not the best equipped for visual recon of the natural beauty that we were walking in.  Seeing a couple of cars/vans approaching us as we walked, had us thinking there was a hotel ahead, so we wanted to check it out. There came a bend in the road that was quite wet and muddy, so we ventured to the edge of the road to circumvent the obstacle--then seeing another long stretch of road ahead, I had to "cry uncle" and say time to turn back. While I was regrouping for the walk back; National Geographic girl went on high alert...she was shushing my labored breathing to concentrate on noises she was hearing just off the road in the trees to our left. Then I heard the sounds too, almost cooing-like. Sharon had her hand up a few seconds later as she spotted the first one.

We found a path into the jungle and cautiously move into the trees. We realized that there was a family of about 7 or 8 monkeys in the trees just ahead of us.

Waaay cool! They seemed to check us out watching them, as we tried to be unobtrusive. Back kink wasn't so bad on the way home as we marveled at how awesome it was to see nature in action that up close and personal.
         Another great day followed that unique experience, pool, some exploring and we were again looking forward to the opportunity to view the sun setting in the ocean.​ We were not disappointed...enjoy the time-lapse photos below.        

        We understand it was cloudy at home and you missed the opportunity to see the Strawberry Supermoon on Thursday the 24th. It cleared up beautifully here for us to see it...thought we'd share...