Day 11

So this was our second try at whale watching. The water was about as calm as it could be and as we headed out, we weren't even getting the slightest spray from the ocean!

After a bit of searching, we were excited to see a black mass rise up and spray water in the air. It was a mother with it's baby!

Spraying water

 How beautiful! I think we all felt that we can't wait for paradise when we can swim with these beautiful animals Jehovah has given us.

Can you see it's white face under the water?

After spending a couple hours I guess chasing whales, we headed for a privately owned island where there are a few hotels and a beautiful beach.

We had some time to chill, people were trying to sell you everything there. Someone tried to charge me 2,500 pesos (over 50$) for a beach towel! Then they wanted you to pay 3$ to sit on their beach chairs. We just sat in the sand on our towels and after an hour or so we ate our lunch. Rice, beans, fish, chicken, fruit. It was a typical Dominican meal, and delicious!

Me jumping

A sea lion jumping

It seemed like this couple paid to have the sea lion get in the water with them. We were really surprised to see it there!

There was even a three piece band walking around playing Spanish tunes.

We then got back on the boat for an uneventful, but still beautiful, ride back to shore. We spent the rest of the day with Natalie and ended up at her house in the evening watching Despicable Me and eating some guacamole. 

For some reason watching whales made us all feel super beat so we all headed in for bed.

ps: The pictures in this post are all Joanna's. I was afraid to bring my camera on the boat since last time we got soaked!