We spent 4 days in the southwestern city of Boqueron, a very popular college hangout which has a bohemian atmosphere and geat beach. The beach is lined with 40 foot tall coconut trees and looks amost South Pacific in nature. The town is very busy on the weekends and that is Thursday thru Sunday. The street vendors open up and have carts full of local oysters, mussels, cold beer, shell jewelry, empanadillas and other trinkets. The rest of the week the town is literally closed down with only 1 or 2 restaurants open! Every morning the boys would take Daisy to the beach for a poop, swim and run and they would have a morning swim before school as well. It was a relaxing visit for all of us.

We left Boqueron and sailed around Cabo Rojo, the south western tip of Puerto Rico, 15 miles to the lovely town of La Parguera. La Parguera is best known for its bioluminescent lagoon called Bahia Fosfosrente. Here millions of tiny luminescent microscopic plankton light up the water! We had a "dinghy water picnic" as John said, one evening and were able to see the water all alight . It was very cool. La Parguera is a small fishing village which has many houses on stilts over the water and they are all painted in great colors.

We had Menno's birthday here as well! The boys and I baked a cake and decorated Eira with lots of balloons! Menno took a nice kayak ride around the mangroves in the morning then we went out for a birthday lunch of empanidllas in town and were invited over to Dreamweaver for a steak and potatoe dinner! It was a very nice day and culminated in a beautiful sunset on the water. Happy Birthday Menno!