A Sunday bike ride.

We explored on bikes today. It's always good to get "the lay of the land" on vacation, so we circled the entire island on our rentals. It was hot, hilly and wonderful. This truly is an island almost untouched by tourism. Friendly locals, only a few small guesthouses and hotels and restaurants and stores that still close on Sundays. 

We took our snorkeling gear and snorkeled on Santa Catalina island from a beach. Santa Catalina is a small neighboring island connected by footbridge to Providencia.  It has a few historical sites, maybe one restaurant and a few homes. Very pretty. We also stopped at almond bay beach where some local kids promptly borrowed our snorkel goggles and swam around for a bit. Happy kids. 

In other news, the electricity went out for a few hours tonight, I believe for the whole island. Luckily our hotel has a generator, unluckily none of the restaurants do (there are only a few to begin with).  So, for dinner we had a picnic in our room of cheese and crackers, homemade ginger cookies and apples. Tom tried to make some piña coladas but...um, they weren't exactly tasty.  But I love him for trying. :)

Tomorrow morning we are headed out to sea kayak in the McBean Lagoon mangroves (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Providence_McBean_Lagoon_National_Natural_Park).  Should be beautiful. 

Pictures below of our day...

Beside the road. 

View of Providencia from Santa Catalina. 

On the footbridge.