Stepping Out of the Boat

Here are John and Sonya waiting at the bus station in Santo Domingo while we waited from 6:30 to 8:30 to get on our bus.










This is part of the view we had on our taxi ride from the station in Samana (six hours after disembarking from Santo Domingo). The area around Samana is beautiful!





This was part of our hotel, called Casa Marina Bay Resort. It was nice enough... our toilet wouldn't flush the whole time we were there, and Sonya's TV volume didn't work, but other than those two things, it was great.





This is a view of the beach as you walk toward it from the hotel. It was lovely, and it was nice that there was so much grass and not so much sand. Sand gets into every nook and cranny, you know. On the beach front area, there were all sorts of outdoor games you could play like badminton, volley ball, bocci ball, putt putt golf, and others...



It was a little clowdy when we got there, but not too bad. We enjoyed swimming in the small amount of time we had when we finally arrived.



On Sunday, we spent all day on the beach. It was fabulous. Then, on Monday, we had the morning to spend on the beach, but it rained the entire morning. We sat around hoping that the rain would stop, but it never did. The sea was really rough on Sunday as well.