Day 3 - stunning desert islands

 Today was the opportunity to take a boat trip to visit the three islands across the Holbox peninsula.
"Bird Island", "Passion Island" and "Yalahau spring". 
After some initial challenges with payments, we were organised onto the boat tour, setting off on a small boat for the journey. 

We started off at Passion island, which was absolutely stunning. It's a small uninhabited island, and provides absolutely breathtaking scenery. If you're drawing a desert island, this is literally what you imagine.

We stopped off at the Yalahau spring where there is a cenote (more on cenotes in a later post) to swim in and was an opportunity to buy lunch. I made friends with an iguana here who was determined to end up in my photo albums, posing in all different angles.

Our final stop was Bird island, which is a sanctuary for many species of bird life, including flamingos, pelicans, herons and other birds. Sadly we didn't see any flamingos but we did see a number of other birds there.
The tide was starting to come in, so our time was cut a little short. We also had to pick up a couple of other tourists who'd got stranded as well!

The journey back was a lot more bumpy due to the changing tide/currents, so we were all a bit wet on arrival and pleased to arrive back in the warmth.

I enjoyed a nice ice cream when I arrived back, and then met up with some of the other ladies on the tour for pizza on the beach with cocktails to watch the sunset.
I've really enjoyed Holbox. It's been very relaxing and a lovely vibe to it.