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Beautiful day in the 'hood
... and some of them are heavy. They do this all day in the hot sun walking up and down the beach. You can get your hair braided on the beach. You get a pedicure and a manicure. You could do your shopping and book all your excursions just by sitting in your lounge chair. They come to you and they are relentless, but if you say no gracias politely, they will leave you alone. It’s sunset now and ...
Day 1
... t terrible.
It is 7 a.m. Montreal time. Dominican time is an hour ahead. It rained again last night and I awoke to a magnificent day. Right now it is very comfortable but it looks like it is going to be a scorcher.
So far my plans are to have breakfast and hit the beach. Not a cloud in the sky and the sun is shining.
I’ll check in either later tonight or tomorrow ...
Scout Camp Part 5
... opened up and unleashed a
torrential downpour. Thunder struck so close that you could hear its
deafening crack before the rolling boom of the thunder. Having enclosed
everything in plastic bags inside my backpack before leaving for the
camping trip and pulled everything away from the sides of the tent, which
was covered by a rain fly and a tarp, I was in pretty good shape, hunkered
down and reading, when I ...
The Day I Did 27 Waterfalls!
... 26th waterfall was our first slide! I was pretty scared so I decided to go last. Going down this slide was similar to the waterslides at a park - you cross your arms and GO! This slide was pretty cool and I learned to cross my arms and plug my nose at the same time. I was grateful for this because I didn't get much water up my nose today!
We proceeded to go down the rest of the waterfalls. There was one slide where you had to lean forward and I ...
Wild Things
... form Canada to give birth near Samana. We also saw their backs as they dove into the water, waving their tails behind them!
Asthe same time that we were all watching out on the water, I happened to look up into a tree and see the smallest little black hummingbird feeding on one of the flowers (picture below). Pretty neat to be looking at two things for the first time, the whales being so massive and the bird so miniature in ...


