{"id":168,"date":"2008-06-27T20:37:29","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T19:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/?p=168"},"modified":"2008-06-27T20:37:29","modified_gmt":"2008-06-27T19:37:29","slug":"joe-the-intrepid-explorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/27\/joe-the-intrepid-explorer\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe the Intrepid Explorer"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had to leave Asa Wright so I am now blogging from the Hilton in Port of Spain. Scenery is not nearly as impressive.<\/p>\n

On the way to see turtles we saw several birds and even got a good look and photo of a hawk. Interesting drive to the beach. On the way back to the centre from the beach we got to see loads of frogs in the road. Large and small and even a bright green frog! So lots of birds, turtles and frogs.<\/p>\n

So slept in this morning, missed breakfast to sleep! Got up and got showered and packed and then to sit on the veranda for a last look over the rainforest. Our ride to Port of Spain was an hour late due to an accident on the road (the road is a little twisty mountain road, in many places just one car width wide) but as we didn’t have anything planned it wasn’t such a bad thing. We had a nice drive into Port of Spain but it is much hotter here than it was in the mountains. Joe is now on the terrace upstairs getting photos of the city. We’ll probably skip the whole walking around Port of Spain thing though.<\/p>\n

While on the beach I got a photo of Joe:<\/p>\n

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