Hotel for Days 1 & 2

Sun. Feb. 15 - As you can see from the map on a previous post, the roads we were on became smaller and smaller as we forged on. At 3:45PM we passed through the tiny town of La Fe and the countryside became less populated and more wild looking (that's wild in a good way!).  We passed a sign indicating that we were now in Guanahacabibes National Park and, at 5:30PM, we reached our digs for the next 2 nights. This hotel is located at the tip of a small peninsula and has, so we were told, some of the best diving in the world. The hotel has 2 different types of habitación, block style, which you can see in the background of the photo, and individual duplexes which are located along a sturdy, but rickety-looking boardwalk in a setting near the woods.  We were in the duplexes. They were clean and quite comfy, plus it was fun watching the resident Great Lizard Cuckoos doing their thing around and under our rooms.  There is also an extensive network of trails behind the hotel and we had some amazing walks that yielded some truly memorable birds.  

The weather was quite warm, sunny with many huge pouffy clouds that made for some welcome shade on occasion.