Canoa
We spent 3 full days in this more touristy beach town. The beach was beautiful, and the waves were pretty big. Our days were spent reading, swimming, and trying to catch the low tide so we could sneak into some bat caves at the north end of the island. Unfortunately, the tide was never low enough so we missed that chance. Instead we spent hours combing the beach for shells and sand dollars and watching the sea birds peck at shells.
Canoa is known as a surf town because of the bigger waves and so everyday there were several of the same people out with their boards. Colin was out there one day with a rented board and had several good runs down the waves (no photos unfortunately though).
We have quickly learned that it is incredibly hard to make change for anything larger than a five in most places. I spent a dollar at an internet cafe at one point, but only had
a ten dollar bill. So I was running around town trying to find someone, anyone, that was going to give me change. No such luck. So I ended up having to buy more sunscreen just to get some smaller coins. (Good thing we were going through the sunscreen very fast). We try and pay for things with the biggest bills possible sometimes just to prepare for the upcoming day if we know we'll need small change. I think the banks should just stop giving out twenties here all together.
We tried boogieboarding one afternoon. The waves were really big! I felt like i was basically letting myself get beat up, but we had several really great runs and were exhausted afterwards. Lots of fun!
Our hostal was right on the beach and there were some beautiful sunsets that we saw as we were eating dinner or enjoying the free popcorn during happy-hour. Yes, happy-hour. Banana coladas are extreemely delicious when they're made fresh! And our hostal was also home to a few igwanas who we would see sunning themselves on the topmost branches during the day. Relaxing almost as much as we were.
We returned to Quito yesterday, on yet another long and crazy bus journey. Colin took some videos of the bus driver's daring moves on the curving highway up in the mountains. The views were just as beautiful as on the way out of Quito. We are stocking up on supplies at the market this morning and then we are going to travel two hours North to the area of Otovalo, a town which is famous for it's markets (we arn't going to shop YET though...we're waiting till the end). There are a few small villages and some hikes that we would like to check out.
Canoa is known as a surf town because of the bigger waves and so everyday there were several of the same people out with their boards. Colin was out there one day with a rented board and had several good runs down the waves (no photos unfortunately though).We have quickly learned that it is incredibly hard to make change for anything larger than a five in most places. I spent a dollar at an internet cafe at one point, but only had
a ten dollar bill. So I was running around town trying to find someone, anyone, that was going to give me change. No such luck. So I ended up having to buy more sunscreen just to get some smaller coins. (Good thing we were going through the sunscreen very fast). We try and pay for things with the biggest bills possible sometimes just to prepare for the upcoming day if we know we'll need small change. I think the banks should just stop giving out twenties here all together.We tried boogieboarding one afternoon. The waves were really big! I felt like i was basically letting myself get beat up, but we had several really great runs and were exhausted afterwards. Lots of fun!
Our hostal was right on the beach and there were some beautiful sunsets that we saw as we were eating dinner or enjoying the free popcorn during happy-hour. Yes, happy-hour. Banana coladas are extreemely delicious when they're made fresh! And our hostal was also home to a few igwanas who we would see sunning themselves on the topmost branches during the day. Relaxing almost as much as we were.
We returned to Quito yesterday, on yet another long and crazy bus journey. Colin took some videos of the bus driver's daring moves on the curving highway up in the mountains. The views were just as beautiful as on the way out of Quito. We are stocking up on supplies at the market this morning and then we are going to travel two hours North to the area of Otovalo, a town which is famous for it's markets (we arn't going to shop YET though...we're waiting till the end). There are a few small villages and some hikes that we would like to check out.
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Umm - can I meet you guys down there? I could realy use a banana colada right about NOW.
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