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At the south end of Las Peņitas is a Reserve of sorts. There are estuaries which you can explore with canoe (lots of birds), and a beach where sea turtles come to lay their eggs. |
View of Reserve from Las Peņitas. Isolated by salt water estuaries. |
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The beach inside the reserve streches along the coast line for miles. |
We walked about 3-4 miles and never saw anyone. |
Thousands of shells lined the beach. |
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The reserve is basically only accessible by boat. You can try wading to it during low tide or you can pay a local a few cordobas to take you across in one of their boats or use a canoe from Barca de Oro hotel. We got a canoe ride from a boy who decided to be our self appointed guide and was intent on walking us down the entire length of beach so that we could "know (conocer)" it. After an hour we finally convinced him to head back. He was thrilled with his payment - a computer printed picture of us together. |
Eileen and our guide. |
The dent in the middle of the picture is a turtle nest. |
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Though this land is set aside as a reserve, locals are free to collect the turtle eggs from the beach for food, so we have no idea if any of the babies actually make it back to the sea. |
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