Kayaking the San Jeronemito River

We had a great day yesterday. Syd and Yves decided they would kayak down the San Jeronemito River yesterday. This entailed driving 7 kms off the highway to a place called La Palma. I asked friends to come with us as I didn't want to be driving back alone. As it turned out we reached La Palma and sure enough it only had one palm tree! Grin! The road was really rough and unfortunately after we arrived, and after some great debate (about 2 minutes) Syd and Yves decided that there may be rapids so would go back to the highway and paddle from there. We got them into the river and drove back to La Barra.

I got home, got organized and called some friends, we planned to meet the guys in a place called Chole. As Danielle knows, this is the place that not only has artefacts and an amazing 500 year old cactus, but it also has the 'Road Kill' Restaurant. Here you can eat any number of endangered species (just kidding)!

We travelled to Chole in three vehicles and arrived at the very moment that Syd and Yves arrived in the kayaks. We then decided to try a new restaurant (on the way in to Chole) because some of our friends weren't as adventurous as the rest of us. The new restaurant was rustic and lovely. I'm not sure they have had a group of 12 before but the kids got out of the tiny pool, dressed in clean clothes and helped out. They were so cute. We had a lovely meal and everything was so fresh.

On the way home we visited the Reserve de Iguana. A family has been incubating iguana eggs over the past nine years and trying to get the government to put them on the endangered list. They raise the iguanas to a certain size and then with written permission from the government they will take 1000 to small villages to see if they will survive. Apparently the korobos (another type of iguana) that we often stop to see on the way to the airport are all from Costa Rica and somewhere along the line someone had brought them into Mexico. They are not good to eat so usually survive for 25 years. The black (the ones that are hunted for food) are only in Guerro state. We also so some rare ducks, snapping turtles (they live for 200 years) and deer. A tiny fawn actually licked my hand. He was only 2 months old.

Then when we got home we had a drink on the beach while watching 4 whales go by and then the sunset was spectacular. This is the life!