Isla de la Piedra

We met a local man in a restaurant a few days ago who had found some interesting things on the beaches of Isla de la Piedra (one of the above pictures shows a dried sand dollar -estrella del mar- and a recently dead and not so dry sand dollar). He gave these sand dollars and a couple of nice shells to Liam. He also showed us some bird skulls and a manta ray tail with the stinger on it which he would use as a knife. This inticed us into going to Isla de Piedra (Stone Island). We took a small taxi boat (note the picture of Liam in the boat above who will be getting another visit from the tooth raton) and were a little disappointed when we arrived at the beach and were bombarded by vendors. It didn't look as peaceful as we had been told. We walked past all the restaurants, ATV rentals and the RV lot to find the uninhabited beach area. The beach was beautiful, very soft sand, and on the edge of the beach was a huge coconut grove that stretched farther than we were willing to walk. We explored a little in the trees and watched some horses that lived in a fenced-in area in between the trees. A few of them looked terribly undernourished. Walking through those trees was worth the trip. And then on the way back, we saw a black dolphin. I have yet to capture a dolphin on film. There is also a bright green hummingbird that hangs out in the backyard around the flowering cactus (pictured above) that I have tried unsuccessfully to capture.