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Today (January 21st) was a big day! We got on a bus at 6:30am and drove south for a couple hours (including a few stops along the way).

One stop was at this snack shop with a souvenir barn next door.

Across the road was a goat farm...

where this cute guy was being taken away for someone's dinner. We saw him butchered but I will spare you that photo. :-(

We reached the boat marina!

 And boarded a catamaran like this one.

We set out for an hour & 1/2 cruise to reach Saona Island. The boat was filled with rum drinks, merengue dancing & relaxing. There were about 20 in our group. 

We had the perfect weather for this excursion!

Soaking it all in!

Before reaching Saona Island our catamaran stopped at a private swimming spot with the most clear turquoise water. It was lovely…but hardly private. ;-) We joined several other tour companies with their  tourists doing the same thing.

However there was plenty of room for all…and we smiled the whole time while swimming around in the Caribbean waters.

Wahoo!!!!

After an hour of splashing around we got back on the boat so this guy (along with 4 other crew-mates) could get us to our day's destination.

There it is…Saona Island! 

We were told part of Blue Lagoon & Pirates of the Caribbean were filmed on & around this island. Might have to rent those movies soon to rewatch. :-) It really was a gorgeous setting. The palm trees were incredibly dense.

Getting our backpacks ready as we'll be getting off the boat for lunch, swimming, beach massages, photo ops & more rum drinks soon. (those pics in tomorrow's post).