Cuero y Salado Wildlife Refuge, Honduras

A new day, a new country! Today we awoke in Honduras. We spend today celebrating the fact that one of our guests, Carola Wellman has now visited her 150th country.

One week, three countries! This will be our last though. We started early this morning visiting the Cuero y Salado waterways and sadly we begin to realize that this adventure is running into its final stages. The first to get going, were the kayakers followed immediately by the people on Zodiacs. Cuero y Salado is a series of natural waterways, tall forest, palm and mangrove groves, plus lianas trailing into the water. It is another clear and sunny morning, and as we explore the river, Montezuma oropendolas and White-crowned parrots fly across the sky. Mantled howler monkeys can be heard far away. The vegetation is so incredibly rich and dense, it makes us wonder “how are we going to see something through it”? Still it is a pleasure just to be there; so as we advance slowly through the narrow canals, discussing about the ecology of herons, a slight movement up in the trees attracts our attention. Sure enough a Tamandua anteater is hidden in the vegetation.

After a nice morning in the canals and as the day starts warming up we decide its, time to go back for “brunch”. As the ship is relocated in the afternoon to South-west Cay, we discover that the owners, the Fleming family are there and we invite them for lunch, so that they can tell us a little bit of the story of the Cay. The afternoon is spent snorkeling around the pristine reef of this beautiful Cay. At 7:00 pm we dock at Utila island where we can go out an experience some of the nightlife of this well known scuba diving oasis of the Honduran islands.