While we had the car we reluctantly stopped by the Arecibo light house. Which ended up being 8x cooler than expected. I am pretty sure some private persons came into the ownership of the amazing building, and in order to charge that ten dollars a person- they brought in more touristy things around it. If you know the history behind Knott’s Berry Farm in southern California, it was started the same way. Now it is a full fledged theme park. Only Knott’s attraction was their amazing pies.

In the brochure they boast a mini zoo, aquarium,  boat replica’s , a fake pirate cave, and of course the actual light house.

The mini zoo was pretty awesome, complete with a donkey, chickens and about 5 shetland pony’s in cages that were much too small for them. They had a replica of Blackbeards boat Queen Anne’s Revenge. Which you get to climb up onto like a little kid. Brought me back to the day of when I was 12 and wanted to be a pirate when I grew up.

The pirate cave ended up being a cheap rip off of pirates of the caribbean from Disney land. But turned into a bit of a aquarium. They even had some sting ray.  Finally the light house over looking the Atlantic Ocean. A little Puerto Rican maritime museum at the bottom.

After leaving the light house we found a small muddy lagoon complete with some huge pelicans and pack of feral dogs. The feral dogs ended up being really friendly and were probably only looking for some food.  The pelicans however, were out for blood. While petting one of the cute little feral dogs I noticed one of the pelicans coming straight at me. As it got closer it dawned on me that it was coming for me and dove out of the way. The dog did not move, and was then snatched up by the giant pelicans gnarled beak. I watched in horror as the pelican flew from the muddy little lagoon carrying the little dog into the sunset, all while spilling the insides of the wounded animal into the ocean.  I did not know pelicans ate dogs. It all happened so quickly I did not get a chance to get my camera out.