The Kayaking Trip

We signed up for a kayaking tour of the mangroves. We got there by taxi that was a pick-up truck and the back of it had two benches and a roof. It was a lot of fun riding back there. We were two people to a kayak and we started kayaking on a river of mangroves. We saw a lizard with the name like a dinosaur that I forget, sleeping on a mangrove, and the guide said that he must have gotten there during low tide and when the tide rose he got stuck. We also saw some capuchin or white-faced monkeys.

When we got to a place where she said there would be crocodiles and we should be quiet if we wanted to see them, we sounded like a herd of elephants tromping through a river. At one point, she even said we were at a nest and we were practically guaranteed to see one, but then me and Mom in our kayak had the unfortunate luck to crash into a large amount of mangroves. We made a very large cracking noise when we got away from them and we were splashing quite a lot with our paddles, plus then we couldn't stop laughing. This guaranteed that the crocodiles would go away.

Our tour guide had a very good eye. What I thought was a knot in a tree turned out to be a tree boa curled up in a ball. What I thought was an oddly shaped root, turned out to be a Jesus Christ Lizard. I have no idea why they call it that, but it can run on water, which I consider highly amazing. We also saw a crocodile splash its tail, then go hide from us. Seeing that was really cool.








Once we were done, our guide cut up a fresh pineapple. It was deeeeelicious.