Day 7 - Lake Isabel / Amatique Bay, Guatemala – June 14th

We left Peten, and our hotel, Valla Maya today. It was a nice place, the food was excellent, and each morning there was a crocodile in the river by our restaurant. Today a man went closer to it and tossed some rolls to it and the croc came out and ate them. Mike was down with him, and he was pretty pleased that he could understand most of what he was saying to him and respond back in Spanish. There were also several red and green and yellow macaws in the trees by our villa. Very pretty! I wish I could bring one home. We drove 4 hours in the bus and then boarded boats and went for an hour and half boat ride in Lake Isabel, through the Rio Dulce River, and out into the Caribbean. The water was green and clear and it was very beautiful. We arrived by boat at our resort on the coast of the Caribbean called Amatique Bay. This is an amazing place. There is a nice sandy beach, and an old Spanish light house. The pool area is like a mini water park and zoo. We spent a couple hours in the pool and going down the waterslides. We also played on the beach for awhile and picked up little seashells for Megan. We didn’t swim very far out on the beach, because the water was pretty dirty, with trash and dead fish. The water was very warm though, warmer than the pool water. At dinner time, we changed our clothes and went down to the restaurant by the pool. We ordered a plate of nachos, 2 cheeseburgers and pina coladas. Every thing tasted really good. At the end of our dinner, I really wanted to get my book and go down to the beach and lie in a hammock and read. But out of nowhere came thunder and lightning and down pouring rain. A peacock came in out of the rain, right in the middle of everyone. And there were HUGE spiders. The body itself was about 2 inches long, with long black and yello2 legs in huge webs in the trees. It was so creepy! And there were lots of them.