The trip to Big Corn Island
Woke up bright and early, 4:30 am, to get to the air port for the first flight out to Big Corn Island. This trip is hilarious, we don’t speak Spanish…thank god for my aunt Valerie who knows a tiny bit, enough to get us by.
After getting our tickers & getting weighted with our luggage we headed to the plane. It was a prop plane and it looked very odd, very tall. I’m pretty sure it was built when planes first came out, way back when…things were jimmy-rigged, it was like a fair ride. ;) They don’t really have much security like the States, it was nice. We got to sit where ever we wanted on the plane and when we stopped at Blue Fields to pick up more people the pilots came out of the cockpit, opened the emergency doors for fresh air and left the doors open to the cockpit as they left the plane.
Once we arrived and departed the plane we had a swarm of taxis to fight off, taxis are everywhere in Nicaragua! Our Realtor came in a golf cart and took us right to our very nice hotel right on the Beach, Arena’s Hotel. The drive to the hotel was very interesting, we got to see the island. It’s very dirty and there’s a lot of poverty. Skinny dogs, stray cats, trash and run down shacks. It wasn’t much of a good first impression. Our hotel though, put us in a wonderful state of mind.
After that Gary took us to his property he’s building on the island that’s for sale.
After the villa visit was continued on the tour. We stopped down from our hotel at this cute beach from restaurant called Picnic central. It was very good…mmm, fried chicken. Since our day was so busy we decided to take a nap in our cute bungalow. There’s a kitten that lives here at the hotel. She sits on my lap and purrs while begging for some of my food. She’s a scavenger and if you’re not careful she’ll rip your finger off while trying to take food.
It rained this afternoon, it felt very tropical and the sound of the rain hitting the tin roof is magical. One thing about being down here in Nicaragua is the sun, it’s so hot. There’s a huge temperature difference in the shade then standing directly in the sun.
For dinner we ate at our hotel restaurant. Gary bought us many drinks… what a way to live. I wish I could just stay here forever.
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