…climbed up our cabin wall. “Can you come over here?” The jellyfish incident should have told me that a calm request was his version of a distress signal. Armed with a basket and paper, he would take it out and my job was to man the door to make sure nothing else got in. Yet I found myself distracted thinking of the Brady Bunch episode with the scary tarantula in Hawaii. The experience taught me Eco cabins aren’t for us. Bear Grylls will have to wait a while. But who knows, maybe we will be eating that spider fried up later in the trip. Our Eco stay was a one night stand before a 3 day snorkeling tour. Snuggled into our insect repellent liners, we got some zzzs.

I wavered in the morning. I’d been back and forth on booking a tour to a nearby lake. The main tour went through the jungle and then to an elephant park, and the more obscure tour went to the lake, was a longer drive and a bit pricier. Plus the sudden rains of yesterday made me question being on a raft in the lake. My groundhog felt a repeat was the way to go. The private cabana called him and the prospect of an all you eat sushi lunch in town. Sold. We may end up being terribly boring to follow if we keep doing the same things, but there’s something freeing about not needing to see everything. And as our innkeeper pointed out, there will be plenty of new experiences open to us when we come back! After a long walk on the beach, we returned to the cabanas and a wave riding adventure. Then it was off to lunch, and though unlimited, the chef put such care into each sushi that T almost …