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Catching Up: Baby Shower and Out and About

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Boqueron for my Birthday

Life sometimes just sweeps you down the river and you hardly have a chance to pop your head up out of the water. Life events (and death) and mostly this pregnancy has taken us down all sorts of strange and stressful paths that has led us to dropping some of the balls, including keeping this blog up. While I have a moment I thought I had better at least share a few catch up photos from the last month or so.


Near Wilderness in Aguadilla


Lighthouse ruins (Ponderosa) of Aguadilla


Fun baby shower

With very nice gifts


Including a cool henna design


Friends and neighbors at the baby shower!


Henna design stain


Hiking through our jungle for the photo shoot -notice there are still a lot of down trees in this section of the property


My belly is huge! And I am nearly cooked!


Cool tropical flowers


Strange bug -longhorn beetle I saw in Aguadilla


Britton hiking our jungle


A “Survivor”-style shack on the beach someone built


I’m now in my 9th month and ready (sort of) for baby!

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A Day at Borinquen and Wilderness

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Borinquen Beach, Aguadilla

The other day we helped a friend in Aguada/Aguadilla. When we were finished we decided to go to the beach. I am curious to find Survival Beach, but it was getting late in the afternoon so we headed to one of our favorite beaches: Borinquen! To access it, you must drive through the golf course. It has such a vintage feel to it. In my mind I imagine the glamour of the 50s and 60s. I think maybe it’s the planes flying overhead or the huge cliffs. So we swam for a while and then the lighting was just perfect so Britton took some shots of me as a beach bunny. So fun!

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I found this little bikini at Me Salvé for $1! I couldn’t believe it. It probably won’t last long, but for that price it doesn’t have to!

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Smiling as the sun set

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My favorite picture of the bunch!

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B and Me

I even practiced a little yoga on the beach!

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We also watched the pelicans diving and then flying high up to their nests in the cliffs. Here’s one of the pelicans on high overlooking the sea.

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Pelican Perch

As often happens, we had the whole beach to ourselves! As the sun began to touch the water, we made a quick stop at the lighthouse ruins. Such a cool place!

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Ponderosa Lighthouse Ruins of Aguadilla/Wilderness

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Here’s a fun video of our time. Enjoy.

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Wilderness and Faro La Ponderosa

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Palms galore
Fields upon fields of huge coconut palms

This week our niece Summer came to visit us. It is always great when we have guests because it gives us a good reason to do some exploring that we otherwise put off due to our projects at the property. Our friends Dan and Theresa spontaneously changed their plans and we all went together to Aguadilla and Wilderness. The day was gorgeous and every picture we took looked like a postcard. We explored the Ponderosa Lighthouse ruins for a while and then we found a great little beach cove where we set up for some snorkeling, paddleboarding, swimming and sandwiches. It was an awesome day!

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The dirt road we took. Good thing Dan had a 4×4 truck!

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The ruins of Faro La Ponderosa. What a cool place! The style reminded me of the Nunn Schoolhouse

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Group photo!

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Ok, another!

Dan and Theresa up
Dan getting vertical with Theresa and Bandit down below (Bandit had a blast!)

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Ahoy! I have landed

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Garza and palms -there is a reason it is called “Wilderness”

 

Britton and Summer
We found this beautiful spot  with Flamboyans in bloom and the snorkeling was awesome!

Hidden Cove
Fantasy island with lots of hidden coves

Paddleboarding plus Dan
There was a strong current and wind that took Theresa and I a while to paddle against on the boards. It was gorgeous to look at the shoreline from just a ways off though

Cassie and Theresa Paddleboarding
Even Bandit got in on the paddleboarding action!

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Solitary palm tree blowing in the breeze

It was a great day trip and I would highly recommend it!

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