Punta Sal

Our boat

We woke up early this morning to catch our boat just outside our hotel to go to Punta Sal Island. The sun was shining and it was warm. It was a smooth boat ride there. We first headed to a small cove where we did a 40 minute guided jungle walk tour. Here are some of things we saw...

Ant Hills

Crabs and lots of them

Monkeys

Big rocky hill to climb

Lobster that was caught. It's huge!


After our tour, they took us out by boat to a tunnel we could swim through. It was very cool, but I don't know if anyone got any pictures of it.

We then headed to a small beach and swam for an hour, then over to a part of the island where the Garafuna (people) live. There is about 100 that live on Punta Sal Island in total. We swam and they served us a fish lunch like this...

Small beach

Beach where we ate lunch and swam

Where they cook lunch

Lunch - Battered fish, deep fried plantain (tastes like french fries) beans and rice

We headed back to Tela around 2:30 and surprisingly enough it was a much, much, much, much smoother ride back compared to 4 years ago when Will and I, Dave and Esther last went!

Cool story actually about when we were at the island. When we were swimming at the small beach first, Jenna Stevenato got a small piece of something stuck in her foot near her baby toe. It was painful and we couldn't get it out. However when we got to the other beach where we were having our lunch, there was another team there too from Georgia. They were a team of doctors and construction workers. So a doctor happened to have the necessary tools Jenna needed to get this little piece out of her foot, except for anestectic to freeze the area! She was so brave, despite how much it hurt to get it out and we were very blessed to have the doctor there to help her. Thank you Lord Jesus!

We are back at our hotel now safe and sound. We are about to eat dinner in an hour. We leave for the airport around 7:30 tomorrow morning and we'll be seeing you all shortly.

Thank you all for your prayers, your comments on our blog and your encouragement. Please continue to pray for us as we travel home tomorrow. We don't get in till midnight in TO, so we'll be a little tired.

It has been a great missions trip. William and I have dreamed of taking youth over on missions trips and this was our first opportunity to do so and it's been amazing. We were just looking at some of the older pictures we took last week in Siguatepeque where we were staying and we were just saying we already miss it there and I know the rest of the team would agree with us. Please also keep Jasmine in your prayers as she stays here with a family that is close to Dave and Esther for the next three weeks. We will miss having her on our way home tomorrow, but are so excited she is able to stay and serve.