Venezuela. Puerto Ayacocho - Santa Fé

We had 2 blissful day in PA, recovering from the trip and using the hotel next doors swimming pool. On our last night we left in the early evening, and started our long journey up the country. It took us around a 10 hour journey (on the lower class bus - smaller, bad seats, no air conditioning)to Ciudad Bolivar. There are plenty of trips from Ciudad Bolivar, but for one thing, we wanted to get away from the bugs,

had completely enough, and for a second thing, we´d heard some bad things about the place so thought it would be a good place to avoid. From there, we got straight onto another bus for a 4 hour journey (on a upper class bus - bigger, good adjustable seats, non stop movies, but totally freezing as its cheaper to use the engine from a freezer, rather than buy an expensive air conditioner!)To a place called Puerto La Cruz on the coast. Straight onto an even smaller bus than the first, and 45 minutes later here we are in a place called Santa Fé.
Its a small fishing village, with a few hotels and restaurants. We got here on Sunday 4th and as Sundays are the big day off in the week it was packed with locals, so not really what we were expecting. Monday came though, the beach was deserted, save for other travellers and the fishers, and much more suited to us.
Monday, we ad decided that we really were NOT doing a tour , just relaxing and taking the sun in...until Maurice met some people that were leaving on a boat tour in ten minutes and would we like to join them?.
Why not?.
In the end it turned out that there were too many of us for one boat so we got split up with the people and ended up with 3 Italians.
Our first stop was a peaceful small deserted beach where we jumped off the bat and swan to shore. The waves were strong here, so I had fun playing in the waves for a few minutes catching the waves and arriving on the shore on top of one ( I felt like a kid again!).
Once I´d settled down, we lay in the sun. Drenched ourselves in the suns rays and listened to the waves crashing on the shore. Birds were prominent in this area, especially pelicans, so hearing them screeching above us and the waves crashing next to us was total bliss. Our own desert island!

Our second beach was quiet disappointing, so much litter, I wondered why we were there, then he pulled out the snorkeling gear and it all became clear, all around the sides of the beach was great snorkeling. Amazing coal, beautiful fish but really cold water compared to the first beach!

Our next beach was even further out on the Caribbean coast, and it was time for lunch. I loved our spontaneity on this tour (OK lets go, but have no idea of the itinerary) but because we were so unprepared, we didn't have enough money with us for lunch (so it was lucky that I had bought a melon in the morning so we sat in the bat and ate that while the others gorged themselves on fresh fish in the restaurant)
We sunbathed, swam, relaxed on the beach for a while and back onto the boat.

One more island and h asked us if we liked oysters, when we answered in the positive, he made a little detour on the way back home, by stopping of at yet another beach where he collected around 2 dozen oysters that were locked onto mangrove's next to the beach. They were the freshest oysters that Ive ever had, and the nicest, unexpected tour that we've done!