Adventures on the Tropical Island

Roberta here. It has been such an amazing couple of days. First of all we took a glass bottom boat out to this reef where we got to go snorkeling and see all these cool, colorful fish. The only thing was that it was pretty wavy that day and Alex started to float out to sea. The current was so strong he couldn’t swim back to the boat. I mean, he was wearing a life jacket, but it was still pretty scary. But one of the guides from the boat swam out and pulled him back in.

Later that afternoon we took a bus ride out to the jungle to go ziplining. We went up these wooden stairs to this platform above the trees and we were strapped into harnesses. We got to zip along a line across the tops of the trees. It was so much fun – it felt like we were flying!

There is also a climbing wall and bungee jump right on the beach at our resort. The climbing wall is like this giant rock right on the beach (except it is not a real rock.) I almost didn’t get to go climbing because I only had flip flops but Cowabelle loaned me her sneakers so I could go on. The bungee jump is this big trampoline. They strap you into a harness and you bounce up and down. You can go really, really high and do some crazy flips! You can stay on as long as you want and I thought Stoogles was never going to get off!

Then this morning we went out in dune buggies! First we got to go to this beautiful beach and go swimming. It was so pretty. Then we took our dune buggies to this really cool underground cave. There were steps going down into the cave and we got to go swimming in this underground lake. How cool is that? But the best part about the dune buggies is that we got completely covered in mud! You drive through these giant puddles of muddy water and the mud sprays all over you! Nibbles hated it. She said she never wanted to go dune buggying again. But most of us loved it. Sparky was completely covered in mud from head to toe, but then he was kind of disappointed because he drove through a puddle where the water was cleaner and it washed off all the mud!