La Guajira is the northernmost province of Colombia, bordering Venezuela Here we visited a small national park, a system of brine water lakes that is a sanctuary for hundreds of types of birds, including flamingos.
We camped on the beach for a few days and took a boat ride on the lake with a local guide for bird watching. We were taken in a beautiful carved wooden fishing boat with a homemade sail, which looked like old coffee bags stitched together. Normally November is a good time to see large groups (hundreds) of flamingos, but they had migrated early this year. Colombia is a stopover between their other favorite spots in Patagonia and France. I was very excited to see a large flash of brilliant pink in the sky, a very beautiful pink duck, but not a flamingo. After hours of searching we finally found four, a little family with birds too young to migrate.
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| Boat ride on the lakes looking for flamingos |
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A beautiful pink duck The family of flamingos
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| Our guide preparing the boat and doing the hard work poling the boat |
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The beautiful beach full of large colourful shells, crabs and treasures. Local kids
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Sunset over the lakes with amazing cloud formations as the ocean meets the Sierra Nevada mountains
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