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Published: June 16th 2006
Los Roques
A Pelican dives for food as the sun sets on Grande RoquesHola,
We arrived in Caracas with our taxi waiting for us to take us to our overnight posada, the airport is right next to some, what can only be described as slums and our posada not in an area that much better, we didn´t venture to far out that night and we were quiet glad we had pre-booked our first night in advance.
After experiancing the most disorganised airport terminal we´ve ever enountered we managed to board our rickerty 19 seater plane for the jouney to Los Roques. The views from the plane of los roques were something else hundreds of small coral islands with deserted beaches and the most shades of blue and turquiose sea your ever likely to sea with ther odd taxi boat running people between islands. One of the 1st things to grab our attention and probably be a long lasting memory of Los Roques will be the Pelican who hover about 25-50 meters above sea level then just dive bomb head 1st into the water a quite a speed to catch their food.
After checking in at our posada we went in search of the dive center and booked our diving, 2 days
Los Roques
One of the many islands and one night dive. The 1st day was on the inner archileogo which although had losts fish, the reef was quiet dead and was quiet disapointing, however for ourt 2nd day our guide took us to the southern outer dive sites which had some fantastic coral gardens which could rival the red sea, along with this we saw several eagle rays gliding past, a few moray eels and the biggest parrot fish i´ve ever seen. The night dive was again around Grande Roque (the main island that everyone stays on), a fantastic experiance not that much auqa illuminar but quite interesting to see all the fish looking grumpy and dosile, so much so the instructors were grabbing hold of some puffers and box fish and even stroked octupus (nutters).
A few other Brit had chosen to stay in our posada Andy and Ben, father and son Andy a Dr in Zoolgy and Ben a PHd student, who we are going to try to meet up with later to trek Mt Roramia, Howard and Claire who decided to have a weeks stay in Los Roques before going down to the jungle for eight weeks doing voluntry work with children who
The Catch
Andy, Howard and myself with the morning haul have learning disablilities, and another Andy who was at the end of a 3 month subatical.
Howard who´s a bit of a slick talking cockney had be-friended some locals with a fishing boat and managed to get us a discount to go Barracuda fishing, which turned out to be quiet successful. Half way through the day our guide took us to a island where one of the locals quickly filleted our fish and cooked them (well deep fat fried it, just as they do everything), which sounds great fresh Baraccuda served up just a couple of hours after it was swimming in the sea, except just about every meal is fresh Baraccuda.
So with a couple more days just island hopping and spending time on the beaching we returned to Caracas and we are staying in the up market part of Caracas and have booked our 1st real bus journey a 12 hour overnighter to Merida.
So i´ll leave it there for now and will up date you all again in due course.
Sue ans Andy
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ronna
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lifes a beach
hello hello my lovley lovley newlyweds - so glad to hear you're safe and that all is turning out to be an experience - i can't wait to get more updates - man, those beaches look nice and warm, damn, canada is bloody cold already and it's not even winter eh. well take care of each other and chat soon - ps thanks for the congrats message, love you both, ronna