Hey Tom, great reports!! I'm familiar with your friends area. If you head down towards Cocolobo on the right there's a blue villa with white roof "Bay House", perfect spot for us!

As far as that arachnid your wife is CRAZY..... <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Yikes.gif" alt="" /> when my daughter was maybe 8-9, she and a friend were sitting at night on the great room floor of a beachfront villa on Rendezvous Bay, from the porch we saw a HUGE Tarantula crossing the open doorway just 10 feet from the kids, my buddy grabbed a magazine and quietly "removed" it, if the kids had seen this it would have given them nightmares <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/jester.gif" alt="" /> FYI, in all my years of visiting, that's the only tarantula I've ever come across! Scorpions...that's another thing! <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Grin.gif" alt="" />

When does your wife swim the beach to beach? Good luck to her and thanks for the updates!
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