Los Haitises National Park

Senior Sisters ready at the tour boat company.

Our boat at the dock.

Frigate birds nest on the island.

On the trail to a cave entrance, La Linea cave.

Cindy at a cave entrance.

Shark Mouth cave, really just an erosion.

On an island, Gran Bahia Principe Hotel

Mangroves

Palm trees decaying after harvest of heart of palm.

More recent harvest hasn't shed fronds yet.

Wouldn't be the DR without something weird. This is a beer trailer burning beside the road.

Los Haitises is a bio preserve in the North East, along Samana Bay in the Dominican Republic. It is a bird preserve and home to many varieties of plants. There are also limestone caves with pictoglyphs and petroglyphs from the Taino and earlier Indians.  It is about 2 1/2 hours from Santo Domingo, along a new toll road.  From Samana we took an outdrive-powered catamaran to the park. This was a fun and interesting trip.