Friday, July 27, 2012

Bahia de las Aguilas

 The most beautiful beach in the Dominican Republic.  Also one of the hardest to get to.  The beach is located in a National park.  You can either ride a boat around the rock cliffs or if you have 4 wheel drive (which my husband is so pleased to have) you can drive over the rock cliffs.  Our only mistake, we visited this beach in the 1st year of our stay here.  Now, whenever we go to another beach we'll always compare it to the beauty of Bahia de las Aguilas (Bay of the Eagles). 
 Chillin on the white sandy Beach
 Dulci
 Overlooking the mar (sea).
 We arrived here on a Friday night and the road to Bahia de las Aguilas was closed.  We had planned on camping there but had to settle for camping here instead.  I know, can you believe it?  We sure felt like we were roughing it (wink).
 The beach where we camped.
 Campin' on the beach 
My child is eating what?  Oh, it's just cereal from his cup.
So here's how we got there....I promise it looks much easier than it was!  I was so terrified that the kids and I got out of the car and walked.  Abram stayed close enough to get some picts on our way out.  I couldn't watch. 

Afterwords...
JoyeLoni enjoying the overlook
So this is a very typical mode of transportation here.  They're either piled onto the back of an open truck, like this.  Or just as many of them are on a motorcycle (okay, not quite this many, only 4-6 people can reasonably fit on a motorcycle).  Pictures of that will be coming soon! 
 






Ksusha's Baptism

 So, our creative and intelligent Ksusha is 8 years old now.  I'm so sad that we didn't get to share this special day with family and friends in the U.S. but I'm sure happy we got to spend it with some new friends here in the Dominican Republic.  Everything went down without a hitch, Ksusha didn't even flinch when she stepped into the baptismal font and saw that it was full of floating bugs.  It's the ordinance that counts, right?