In a good snow year we would be skiing the day after Christmas, but this year hasn't been a good snow year, so the day after Christmas Calvin, Peter and I took a hike to the Frog Lake overlook. We started at the Donner Pass rest stop and the first thing I did was slip on the ice while leaving the rest stop and hit my head. Not a great beginning, but things got better after that. The hike is short, a mile or two, but it was uphill, which is not my favorite direction.
You might think that this is the Frog Lake Overlook, but it is not. This is Calvin's artistic picture of Peter and I walking off the edge of a cliff. (We didn't actually walk off the cliff, and it wasn't really a cliff, more of a swell.)
One of the goals of the trip was to use the GPS to locate the Frog Lake Overlook. At this point in the hike the GPS indicated it was 13 miles north of us. The good news is that it was only a few hundred yards up the hill and the even better news is that Calvin figured out the reason all of his GPS readings seemed to be 13 miles off.
It should be noted for full disclosure that Calvin was the only one who actually hiked all the way to the top of the hill to overlook Frog Lake.
We spent the first two weeks of December in this lovely home in Roatan. There is a blue tile infinity pool at the right side of the picture and a lovely double kayak half way up the steps. That pretty much covers what I did for two weeks, a little lounging by the pool, a little kayaking. Calvin was more ambitious and did a little diving. It was just a nice place to hang out for two weeks.
There was a green lizard that shared our space. He's on the branch.
Here he is sitting in the sun.
And here he is climbing a post.
There were some shore birds that we didn't identify. No bird books in the house.
A couple more views of the house.
There was a small resort just across the bay called Marble Hill where we had lunch or dinner a few times.
One day we took a dive trip to the other side of the island. This is BJ's, a local institution where everyone gathers to gossip. BJ also hosts live jam sessions on weekends.
This is Calvin preparing to dive Calvin's Crack, a famous location on the reef.
We also ventured out one day along a washed out dirt road to have lunch at La Sirena, a highly recommended restaurant. We were the first people to have lunch there in 3 days.
Our lunch choice was lobster with mashed potatoes or lobster with rice and beans. Calvin had the rice and beans and I had the potatoes.
It was a clear day, so we ventured to the end of the road and got a great view of several other bay islands.
Not a bad way to spend a few weeks!
