Saturday, 01/09. I didn’t feel like driving and it was pretty windy anyway so going to the beach wasn’t that appealing. I’d seen the serpentarium on a couple of lists of things to do and it’s not far, so…that’s what I did. It cost me 100 pesos to get in (possibly slightly inflated by my lack of Spanish, but maybe not–either way, I got my money’s worth). It’s a little zoo of mostly reptiles, but with an aviary as well, on about an eighth of an acre. Among other things, they have turtles, tortoises, rattlesnakes, many different kinds of lizards, a caiman (I’d call it an alligator, it was at least ten feet long), piranhas, parrots, parakeets, doves, a couple of chickens, and rabbits. And a couple of owls. I enjoyed all of it, but especially the aviary. You can buy little trays of seeds for the birds (or turtle food for the turtles or bunny food for the rabbits), and it was a blast taking one in the aviary and have a parrot land on me. My first try, the parrot just grabbed the tray and flew away with it (by “tray,” I mean a recycled plastic jug lid about an inch and a half in diameter). So I went back for another and was able to host two parrots and a budgie on my arm for five minutes or so.
Then I took Sasha for her second walk and on the way back stopped to look at the menu at the marina cafe. I can’t believe they don’t open until 8am. Well, one of these days.
