Los Gringos - Nick & Talia

Wednesday, January 25, 2006

I saw a fish this big


We got to a tiny highway town(Tucacas) to take our boat tour through Parque National Morrocoy. Morrocoy is a stretch of cayes and islets running about 30kms along the coast of the Caribbean. As we approached our first park destination, the sky filled with large birds of prey, pelicans and numerous others above the mangrove forests. With the trees and sky full of such large birds of all sorts, it seemed as though we had entered a prehistoric land. After a short stay, the boat wound through the mangrove to find us a secluded beach that seemed to appear in the forest out of nowhere. We ate and drank coconut from the trees and snokeled the coral before our next destination was scheduled. This next stop was one of the most picturesque beaches we´ve seen to date. Huge turquoise waves splashed onto the white sand that lined palm trees to our right and junglelous cliffs to our left. The stay there was short but memorable. We were torn form away after a quick swim for our final destination. As the boat hummed along the water, the jungle and mountains of the mainland were in breathtaking view to one side while the beaches of the cayes laid tranquily on the other. Our final arrival was at the largest islet in the park which housed both sheltered turquoise waters and wavier dark blue waters on each side. We laid on the beach, swam and had some fantastic snokeling before the sunset put an end to our magical tour. The weather was anything but cooperative, as rain fell in small bursts a few times and the clouds never fully parted. One could only imaging the glory of this place in blue sky and sunshine. Nevertheless, Morrocoy proved an amazing beauty that captivated us.
Adios for now!

2 Comments:

At 8:31 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

So I finally got caught up on your blog, and now i know why i don't read it more often: It makes me jealous (especially all the monkey encounters)! Your photos are beautiful, and it sounds like you're having a most heavenly time (sea urchins notwithstanding). It's definitely winter here this week, and between you guys and researching Provence at work, I'm having mad sunshine cravings. Take care of each other, and keep having a blast!

 
At 2:49 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey guys,
well, it looks and sounds like you guys are having an incredible trip (and I must say, the blog is very impressive). As I'm sure you've heard from everyone else, you're certainly not missing anything around here in terms of weather. And, as I'm sure you've also heard a lot of: you bastards make me jealous!! But anyway, keep on living the life and I look forward to the next update. Cheers.

 

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