Tourists for the Day

We had a great offer fall in our laps yesterday morning.  Lucy is here from the UK visiting her parents.  They had booked a river tour and asked us if we wanted to come along.  At first I will admit that we had several things that we thought we had to do...you know play one more game of Zuma or Solitaire or read another book.  You get the picture.  So we got our stuff together in less than a half hour and had the time of our lives!

I will admit that sometimes when I see the tourist launchas going down river I feel a little smug.  After all we live here on our boat.  They are only visiting.  So here we are in a tourist launcha waving at our fellow boaters and they can't figure out who the hell we are.

First we went up by the Casitllo San Felipe.  The sun was shining and it was just....perfect.  Back we headed down river for the big part, going down the river to Livingston at the mouth of the river.  We roared through the Golfete and slowed down at Texan Bay where we went through the flower lagoon and up little tributaries to a quiet lagoon where the lilly pads were plentiful and we got a little bit of a shower.  Back out into the Golfete and a storm was brewing on our starboard.  Fortunately it missed us and we continued down river.

We had a stop at the hot water springs and Kim and Lucy toured the cave while Michael  Geoffrey and I sat and enjoyed the river as it went by

We had lunch in Livingston at the Blue Bay.  Kim and I decided to be adventurous and had the local specialty, Taponado Garifuna.  It has an entire fish in it, octopus, squid, mussels, shrimp, plantains, green peppers, and onion all in a coconut cream sauce.  Once I got past the idea of my lunch looking at me it was wonderful.

We got some sun, good food, beautiful scenery, and of course good company.  Moral of the story?  Don't  forget to be a tourist in your own home.  There's a lot to see out there.