Baracoa 5
run by a neat young professional couple, the husband being an MD and excellent cook (better than at our last place, surprisingly). The couple in the video is from Lithuania - she works at the Lithuanian embassy in Holland and promised to send us a video about the champion Soviet team with Arvidis Sabonis and three other Lithuanians on it.
Plan for the day was El Yunque, but la lluvia took care of that. Rained all night and so the tour we'd scheduled was cancelled - river to cross too high and trail too muddy. Plan B was a self-guided bicycle tour, but there was no bicycle in the whole damn town small enough for Dana. So we blew $30 on a taxi to cart us around. The good news: it was a beauty, a vintage Chevy with a fabulous paint job.
Our friendly driver's name was Ruger (g pronounced like an h, as is my name here).
We started at El Yunque park...
where the river we would have had to cross to climb it, was raging with mud.
Our guided nature walk, was pretty low key, but we learned some stuff about the plants, e.g. the "mother-in-law" tree that changes color (mood) inexplicably and a tree with pods that produce a vibrant dye.
We also saw a number of birds: several warblers, an American kestrel...
and a "negrita", the Cuban bullfinch, found only in Cuba and Grand Cayman Island.
We then went for a little birding boat ride in the river Tua, the largest in Cuba.
On the way, we passed a little factory that Ruger said was for making charcoal from coconut husks for use in refining oil (huh?).
In the river we saw egrets, and more little blue herons...
and some green herons that were really lovely.
Back in town another band was playing near the main plaza.
Baracoa 6
Lobster in coconut milk on the roof tonight.
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