After a few days in Antigua, we hopped in the car and headed for the beach. After a beautiful 3 hour drive we arrived in Monterrico, Santa Rosa. It's a small town between the beach and the channel. It's colorful, hot and the people are friendly.
The docks.
Yes, you are seeing this right. To arrive in Monterrico one must drive their car onto a wooden barge and be carried 15 minutes down the channel from the end of the hiway.
The next morning we took a tour through the mangrove forests that line the channel.
Entering the mangroves.
Mosquito hell.
Me, mom and dad and our guide Eliacer. The channels are shallow enough that Eliacer propelled us in our 2 hour trip by pushing off the bottom with a long stick.
Early morning light in the thickets.
Beautiful water lilies and reeds in an open area of the forest.
Cap'm Nic.
Water plants line the trees.
Eliacer noted that in just a few more weeks these white birds will have arrived in the hundreds, migrating even further south. He said they are so many that the trees appear covered in white.
Water plants thick along the side of the channels. They grow now because it is the rainy season, and the water in the channel is fresh from the rain. In the dry season, the water becomes brackish, killing the plants but providing food for the fish and shrimp that live in the channel. These plants also provide cover for the caymans that live in the channel.
The good life.
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