Beach time

We spent a couple of nights on Playa Blanca beach an hour or so out of Cartagena. We stayed in a beach hut right on the beach. 

We had a welcoming committee:

There were not many tourists but lots of hawkers offering you something every five minutes (ice cream, drinks, massages, jewellery, dominoes, sunglasses, the list goes on). Most of the tourists were there for the day so around sunset lots of people went off on boats and the place was dead. 

So nice, there were only a few places to eat so we took it easy, gorged on lobster and enjoyed the absolute peace with the gorgeous sound of water and bird call during the night (with the odd dog bark!). It was lovely. We all got sunburnt even though we tried so hard not to. 

We could see fish in the lovely turquoise water and we treated ourselves to a night time boat trip to then jump into a lagoon and swim with plankton lighting us up, very cool. Olive was super brave and just leapt in in the pitch black. The journey back to Cartagena was a surprise as well. The planned return bus journey got upgraded to a speedboat, nice!