Down to The Coast to The Bay of Pigs and The Zapata Swamp

The second region we travelled to was Playa Larga, using the Hotel Playa Larga as our base – one of the hotel’s cinderblock chalets is pictured below.   We saw the smallest bird in the world – the Bee Hummingbird while birding at Bermeja. On a sunset dash out to find Cuban Parakeets, I got some of my favorite photographs of farmers gathering their animals at the end of the day.  During this leg of the trip was also visited Las Salinas where I was hoping for close-ups of Flamingoes, but you can’t control where nature is going to hang out. I am always happy to see a spoonbill.

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