Still feeling slightly under the weather with whatever bug I've caught we decided to have another leisurely day today.
Yesterday we walked half the length of the island, the full width and reached the highest point so there wasn't much left to explore anyway.
We took the long way round back to the port stopping anywhere that looked interesting. Strangely the island seemed completely deserted.
As we approached the port we found out why. There were more than 50 islanders repairing the entrance steps and replanting the flower beds.
We weaved our way down the steps feeling slightly guilty that we were obstructing them until we got to the beach.
On the beach we found a llama. A slightly odd sight to say the least as we had only seen them up in the mountains. But given "lake level" here is about 3800m perhaps it shouldn't have been quite such a surprise!
The llama seemed quite happy, munching on a pile of dried seaweed, then snoozing in the sun.
A little later I saw the llama standing in the lake and two donkeys eating the llama's food. The llama seemed quite put out and nervous of the donkeys.
Slowly, inch by inch, the llama edged forward until it was just out of the water then nonchalantly munched on the sand, slowly inching further and further forward.
About half an hour later the llama had moved a distance of just a few metres and was finally happily munching with the donkeys. However it seems a llama can only do so much munching and soon went back to sunning himself and snoozing.
By 5pm we were back in Copacabana. Whatever festival had been going on was over as all the stands had been packed up.
As we walked along the lake front back to our lodge two dogs decided to join us for the whole 2km!
They happily ran beside us, occasionally distracted by bits of rubbish or birds then running to join us again. If they got too far ahead they stood and waited. By the time we got to our lodge we had accumulated a third dog. Fortunately they didn't follow us to our room!
So once again a relaxing and beautiful day.
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