Puerto Rico Trip, Part 2

If you're interested in reading about the first day of our trip to Puerto Rico, click here.

On our second day in Puerto Rico, we went kayaking in Condado Lagoon just down the street from our hotel. For $40 total, we both got an individual kayak for an hour and a half. Our hope was that we would see a manatee in the lagoon as we had seen videos online, but no such luck. We did encounter some fun iguanas though!

Here's the little dock where we rented our kayaks.

We made the fun mistake of putting sunblock everywhere except our legs. My knee caps have never been so burned!

Robbie paddling his giant banana through the lagoon.

Robbie making friends with an iguana.

The iguana kindly posed for me.

After getting freshened up at our hotel, we decided we wanted to take a bus to Isla Verde, further east in San Juan. We knew #53 would take us where we wanted to go but got tired of waiting. When we saw bus #10 and it said it was going to Isla Verde, we decided to hop on. Unfortunately, it only took us to the very edge of Isla Verde then started heading south. We thought maybe if we stayed on it would continue back to the east, but we were sorely mistaken. After about twenty minutes in the wrong direction we decided to get off the bus and see if we could find our way back to where we were wanting to go.

Because we couldn't find or figure out which bus would get us back, we ended up walking four and a half miles under the Caribbean sun in the super high humidity. (Please note that San Juan is also very hilly so this wasn't a nice flat walk. Also, we were both wearing flip flops.) Needless to say, by the time we got to Isla Verde we were absolutely exhausted. We wondered down the beach looking for somewhere to eat and ended up in a little bar/grill where we shared nachos and a pina colada.

After some refreshments, we played in the ocean a little then hopped back on a bus to go back to our hotel. (Don't worry, it was the right bus this time!) On the plus side, we did get to see parts of the beach we wouldn't have had we not walked the length of it and we got some beautiful pictures.

Moral of the story: Trying to take a short cut can end up taking you in a completely wrong direction. Don't get on the 10 simply because you're tired of waiting for the 53. Be patient and wait for the 53.