Saturday night went to the pub (The KokoMo) for supper, fish and chips and 3 large beer, delicious and only $17.95, pretty good price. It is quite small with a huge Montreal Canadians sign on the back wall and all kinds of masks on other walls; yes the owners are from Montreal. Felt a little out of place only English speaking people in the place but they did have an English side to the menu.
The gardens are absolutely beautiful, and the pool and area around are huge and gorgeous. So besides beach walking, swimming, collecting sea shells (although have decided not to bring any home, using them to decorate the gardens around our house Casa Isabela, just vegging and enjoying the weather and surroundings. Sure beats shoveling snow.
Whenever we take our beach walks we bring a plastic bag with us to pick up all the pieces of ropes, nets that have drifted into shore, it is really upsetting to see what people, have tossed into the ocean,I suppose from boats. It is nothing to see tires, bottles, chunks of wood huge piles that have drifted to shore.
A huge festival in Ecuador is Carnival it is held during the week before Lent. We thought it would be more fun to walk down to the beach where about 400 Ecuadorians were celebrating, drinking, eating, playing soccer, playing in the surf and just having a blast. An awesome experience.
We have booked 2 days to go to the Pacoche jungle where we will see different types of monkeys including the howler monkey and about 300 species of birds, Leo will definitely be in his element.