Left Puerto Rico this morning for The British Virgin Islands and have spent the day wandering around and drinking lots of very cheap G&Ts. We met up with with Keith and Kathryn Prest today (we are going sailing in the Caribbean with these guys) and have had a great time catching up. Tomorrow we start the sailing adventure and hop onto our boat for ten days of sailing around the Caribbean.
But before this I need to tell you what we have done in Puerto Rico since the last blog... Before we left Ponce we went to a museum of Puerto Rican music. It was full of all sorts of latin american musical instruments including several had never even heard of. Then it was off to the Arecibo radiotelescope and it was amazing. It is so big! That night we drove through some ridiculously windy roads in order to get to our hotel. Chris did the driving and she is very good at driving on the wrong side of the road, just like in Australia. We stayed in some back-hills in a very mountainous part of Puerto Rico in an old coffee plantation called Casa Grande. Not a very original name I grant you, but there you have it. Ashley and I went for a bit of a walk down the road and ended up chatting wit a local guy called Noel who gave us the I story of the area. The people here always seem to be open for a chat.
The next morning we drove a couple of hours to do a cave tour in a huge cave called Cueva Clara and it was absolutely amazing. The cave was full of stalactites and stalagmites and was over a million years old. Just astounding. After that we had to drive back to our hotel at the airport ready for the flight in the morning and I have never, ever been in such a long, packed line of peak our traffic. It took us about two hours to go the last 25 kilometers to the airport and by the time we got there we had had enough. So we went to the bar and had more G&Ts with dinner.
So, tomorrow begins the next adventure. We will be spending the next ten days sailing around the Caribbean on our 44 foot yacht. Consequently there may not be much blogging going on because we may not have access to the Internet.
This is a cool chook guitar in the music museum.
The radiotelescope at Arecibo where they filmed part of the Bond movie 'Goldeneye'.
View from our room at the Casa Grande.
Piña Colada at the Casa Grande. Mmmmm.
Stalactites in Cueva Clara.
A hint of things to come! i.e. tomorrow.
Let the drinking begin. In Tortula in the British Virgin Islands waiting for the first G&T.
Love the name. VERY strong G&Ts here cost $2.00. Between us we went through 16 of them tonight.
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