La Parguera Part Deux

We enjoyed our trip to La Parguera so much we needed to do it again before Barnaby left. Our friends saw our pictures and had some time off so we all coordinated to make another memorable trip with Puerto Rico Kiteboarding Club.

Jordan came prepared to watch us kite in style

 Mark testing the waters

We camped on Cayo Laurel again and this time Karlene and Mark found some firewood while Matt and I prepared dinner.

 Bacon wrapped steak, vegetable, sausage and pineapple shish kebabs. The bacon charred and kept the steak nice and tender, best kebabs ever!

Matt's homemade coral bbq

 I man, I build fire

 The next day Karlene and the crew left early to catch the ferry to Vieques while we chilled and waited for Joel to come and pick us up and take us to the mangrove to kite.

Only the best for my beagle (she found this "bed" all by herself)

 Matt got anxious waiting for Joel so he decided to pump up and kite our little island

 Matt saw a kiter at the mangrove we set up at and kited over there to ask Joel to come and get us, he told us he thought we were all going to kite over there. We could have but we decided to pack up and leave that night and head north to Rincon.

 Trying to get the courage to do a Dead Man

They call him the "Dr."

Nice Barnes!

 The "Lazy Boy"

 Our new kite buddy Steve

El Yunque Peak

We knew we had to take Barnes to the rainforest but knew we didn't want to take him to the waterfall trail that we take everyone because there are just to many people. I gave him a list of the trail descriptions and he says "We have to do El Yunque Peak, the longest hardest trail of them all". Should have know better! I thought it was actually easier but yes it was much longer than La Mina Falls trail that we usually go on.

This is were we almost lost the girls. Kristah caught onto a scent (some critter ran across the path), probably a mongoose. Her and Sin's were barking up a storm not listening to us and suddenly it went dead silent! We knew there was a cliff and hoped they didn't slip off it because they wouldn't come. It was proably a minute or less when Sin's and then Kristah showed up but it felt like an hour!

 This is looking almost straight down

 On our way down the clouds lifted so we could get a glimps of what we hiked up

So much to do in Arecibo

One thing on Barnes list was to see the Arecibo Observatory. The radio telescope that was in movies such as 007 and Contact. We decided to drive to the south coast and try and get some wind. We found a gorgeous spot our friends Ryan and Erika told us about but there was just a breath of wind. Instead of waiting around for it we decided to hit the road at make our way to the Bad Banana Ranch in Utuado.

 

The road to get to Utuado from the south coast is long and windy. We thought we could squeeze in one more activity but it was getting late and we new our rental car was probably not going to make it up the wet muddy "drive way" to the ranch.

 

Like we thought we had to park the car basically in front of the farm takers house because our lame SUV rental couldn't make it up the wet muddy hill. I made the mistake of letting the girls out into the rain which they didn't not like at all and jumped back into the car! Red muddy paw prints everywhere!!! Anyway we made it to the ranch and Matt got started making the fire while we started our hobo meals.

The girls always get the best seat in the house

 Best dessert ever!

 Morning view

The next day consisted of taking Karlene and Barnes to the telescope and petrified sand dunes. I stayed on the beach with the girls while they walked around and snorkeled. I either left the girls bag with their food, Sin's shock collar and Kristahs medication in it on the beach or it got stolen so they got left over hobo meal for dinner! Besides loosing the bag it was a great trip thanks to Troy and Justin letting us stay at BBR.