Breakfast outside the hotel with sparrows for company and a brief walk alongside the local canal. Another taxi back to the airport. Very chatty driver from Vietnam.
Easy checkin - very relaxed here. Sat and watched a few planes land and depart before ours. Some are tiny - 12 seaters, others maybe hold 40 people.
See our bags going on a cart to the plane. We walked out to the plane and only around 25 of us travelling. Best seats are on left side of plane as you can see the island as you leave and also when you land.
Collected our jeep and headed up towards Silver Oaks Ranch.
Landscape here is very strange - lots of black lava fields, brightly coloured bouganvilleas - red, pink, white etc, nothing very green on this side of the island. Silver Oaks is at about 1500 feet and cooler than lower down. It stays in the 70s here most of the time.
Rick Decker greeted us as we arrived and upgraded us to the (much) bigger Ranch View Cottage. We have a massive bedroom with ensuite. Big sitting room with dining area and kitchen and a large deck/porch where we can look down on the coast. There's a pool and a hot tub which we can use as well. Luxury!
The queen of the ranch is 'Gigi' an extremely vocal black cat who likes to come and get lots of attention from guests. There are goats - several of which are pregnant and may give birth whilst we are here. Also a donkey and a horse which are both partial to papayas.
It has been very dry here for the last four months and it has just started raining today.
Supper at a local pizza restaurant. Parked our jeep under cover and went inside and the heavens opened. Everything they say about tropical 'showers' is true.
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