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Red Beach - Weekend 2 in PR

Sunday, February 11, 2007

So its been a while since I've updated due to the large amount of work we are doing down here. The team I'm working with is pretty cool and the work is different but still auditing - what can you do!

We normally get back to the hotel at about 9pm every night and then go out for dinner and by that time its bed time (need my 8 hours). So nothing much happens during the week. I will take some pics of Old San Juan and post then cause its really amazing.

So for the second week here, we worked on Saturday and decided to take the Ferry on Sunfay to Culebra (island off the east coast of PR). We were staying in a different hotel at that stage - one on the beach. Here are some pics:



View from my hotel room, and Samai, Rob, Sung and myself on the biatch. They are working with us on the job.

So anyway, we went out to a festival on Saturday night and got home late. We had to get up early on Sunday morning to drive an hour to Fajardo on the east coast so we could catch a ferry to Culebra. Due to the night before, we got there a little late and the ferry was full. So we decided to go on the other ferry which goes to Vieques, which is another island (bigger than Culebra) off the coast.

The ferry trip was long and tought to swallow with a hangover, but we made it.



Check out the guys box boat - pretty funny.

So we had finally made it out to the island and now we wanted to hit the beach. We thought we could just catch a taxi but due to the island being and old bombing target of the US (closed in 2000), most of the roads are dirt, so we took a taxi to a place that hired jeeps! Then they were out of jeeps cause we didnt book, but after a bit of convincing we finally got the lady to rent one to us. So we were finally off to the beach - Red beach (one of the many, but apparently the best one). But before we got there there had to be one more delay... We got pulled over by a cop cause I was speeding (doing 50 mph on a dirt road with a limit of 25). The traffic officer was a complete chump who thought he was the hero of the island for stopping me "speeding" on a dirt road with no cars on an island with a population of about 2000 people - nothing better to do. And nothing made me happier than whipping out my SA drivers and him squinting to understand it and leaving him not much of a choice but to warn me.

So we eventually reached the beach and all the crap was worth it, check it out...





We swam for about 2 hours and then had to make the long trip back again. Before we jumped on the ferry we had a few sundowners at a pub with the most awesome view evers...



So for the one day a week off, it was a good one. Check out the gallery for more pics.
posted by G Man, Sunday, February 11, 2007

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