Bell Channel Inn

... are calm seas. The fuel docks open on typical island time, about 8:20. We take on 125 gallons of diesel and head for Bell Channel, the exit from Port Lucaya in the Atlantic. The reef and shallows extend about a mile out into the ocean. The water is ...

... to La Fortuna.  This was one of the scariest rides ever.  We passed houses that looked like something off of the Discovery Channel in the poorest places in the world, and we even saw an overturn semi.  After about a 2.5 hour ride we got to ...

... past Frailes, a monastery converted to a boutique hotel, with a beautiful courtyard garden which incorporated an old aqueduct channel. In the street outside there were walled enclosures showing the same water system. In the foyer there were excellent ...

... of poor man's Mecca. We can also look down on a group of youths making the best of a brick cistern which the irrigation channel flows through, making a swimming hole. They ham it up for a photo. No signs of a girl's swimming hole. From here we ...

... us CNN or BBC, but we ended up with a channel with old movies and sit-coms. All of a sudden it would go, a Russian lost his channel he was watching so they had to give it back to them, we got it back later on, just about bed time. Went to McD's and ...