Miscellaneous Items from Puert Plata

The views from the top of the mountain were really pretty spectacular.  There is actually quite a bit of farmland outside the city.

Here is a picture of a baseball diamond that also gives you an idea of the housing.

I am not sure what this boat was doing but the men on it do not look like they were up to any good.  I had to use my telephoto lens on the camera to get this picture.

There are a lot of cattle on the island.  In this picture they are behind a fence but this is not always the case.  Our tour driver had to stop for a cow on the road...a little like deer around here.

The construction sites in the Dominican Republic are not like they are here.  Every thing is done by hand.  If they want something on the third floor, they manually haul it or shovel it up there.  Things do not get done quickly or are they rarely, from what I saw, up to the codes we have here.

The price of gasoline is about $4.30 a gallon.  In town they have regular gas stations but they also have stops along the roads where they have taken pop bottles and filled them with gas and then sell it to the motorcyclists by the liter.  

Life is good.