Another great day

I am currently sitting in the lobby of our hotel. It is an open-air space with ceiling fans overhead and dim lighting, comfortable couches. I can hear a fountain nearby and a frog croaking--since it is a Puerto Rican frog, it says "Coqui" which is also its name. It is very restful and the air is fresh and cool since we just had a heavy rainstorm pass through.

Fish--identifying him will take some effort (some other day).

I'm working on downloading one of my better fish photos. We took a ferry today to a very small island off the coast here. The island is called "Gilligan's Island" for reasons of resemblance, I gather. The island is largely covered with mangroves and has channels of water in which you can snorkel and watch the fish.
I also took some desert photos--yes there are mangrove swamps and cacti all within less that a 1/2 mile of here. In one day I got stuck by spiny plants and photographed marsh birds. Great for the nature lover!

Hermit crab convention--best viewed larger.

The bad news is all my desert photos were lost while downloading to my computer. I'm not sure what happened exactly but I gather the function called "safe delete" isn't entirely safe. The good news is I can go back tomorrow and take more photos. As my older son commented today: "If a picture is worth a thousand words, a thousand pictures is worth less than food." Being a 15 year old boy means being hungry all the time. It is funny except when he is eying your dinner.