After an overnight in Tulum, we met the guides at the bridge partway to Punta Allen to avoid a very bad road this year. It being Sunday, Rob and I headed to the lodge, albeit by a somewhat indirect route. Since we don't fish Sundays, our guides gave us a little ecotour on the way to Punta Allen.
We encountered a big crocodile right at the bridge where we started. Wouldn't want to be wading and fishing here.
We wanted to see some ruins, but they were beyond the far south end of the bay. The guides took us instead to see what the indicated was a Mayan lighthouse, built near the point of an island in the bays inside the sand spit leading down to Punta Allen. There is a depression on top where they believe fires were built to guide ships north to Tulum.
Along the way we saw many birds, and the guides kindly positioned us to try to get some good pictures.
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| The daddy osprey was a very angry bird, screaming at us the whole time we were near his nest, where the mama bird was presumably sitting on her eggs |
Just a little ways from Punta Allen, we encountered quite a number of dolphins.
Then it was in to the dock and on to the lodge, where we had a relaxing Sunday afternoon. A tradition at the lodge is that each day the bath towels in your room are folded like animals. We arrived to lobsters in our room.
The other tradition is good food. Sunday night was a fish, which I wrapped up in the fresh corn tortillas for fish tacos.
The rest of the group had a rather slow day, just a couple fish caught in each boat. They stayed in the North end of the bay, which in my experience often is slower that heading south across the bay. That is where we will be headed tomorrow.
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