I just popped into town to get some supplies and I thought it would be a swell time to give a quick update. Unfortunately my SD card reader isn´t working anymore so I can´t upload any more pictures. I´ll search around town to try and find a replacement but im not optomistic =( I just found out that this place has a mini UBS cable so I guess I´m in luck today but who knows about tomorrow... but back to the beach talk.
The deal is that I´m staying at this cool little spot down on the beach north of town. It´s got maybe 5 houses that each have a few rooms for rent and one house that will cook for you if you pay them. I think I´ve heard a word for that before... the beach there is amazing! Huge waves crash right in front of me and the sound of the surf in the morning is deafening from my bed. Everyone that I´ve met at this beach went there for just `a couple days´ and ended up seeing 5 weeks fly by so it was great fortune for me that I rolled in the day after a big group left and picked up the best room there for $25 a night.
Most people there cook their own meals and then spend the rest of the night drinking and what not so last night I hung out at the home of `mushroom mark´who is so well established that he built a bar/kitchen out of driftwood and entertains there. Actually he just talks endlessly but he´s fairly entertaining so I guess its ok. Also, on the bus ride into town today I ran into a girl who´s also from Moraga, CA! She said that her name is Julia Sakkis and that she´s a friend of my sister. She also mentioned that on the islands in Panama that I´m headed towards (Bocos del Toro) the owner of the most popular bar (Mondo Taitu) is from Orinda. Small world.
This morning I got woken up when Mario was running aroung shouting ´Tortuga´which means turtle. Turns out that baby turtles were popping up out of the sand and we all needed to see it. After the turtles do their thing on the beach at night, the owner of my hotel digs them up and reburries them in the yard so that the locals dont dig them up and eat them. So, the turtles were popping up in the sand filled yard and we helped by digging them out, putting them in buckets of water and helping them to the surf. I got lots of great pictures.
I think that this afternoon I may actually go surfing or maybe just swimming and get some reading done. I paid for 3 nights at this hotel and I think I´m going to regret not doing more. Most importantly though, I need to get a bottle of Flor de Cana, the best rum in the world by most accounts, and some coke for cuba libres on the beach. I met a bunch of other guys staying a few rooms away from myself and they showed me some of the other nearby beaches. The one just north of us is a small one entirely occupied by a walled compound belonging to the richest family in Nicaragua. That means that we get the whole place to ourselved and the sand has been meticulously combed of rubbish. Sweet.
I just popped into town to get some supplies and I thought it would be a swell time to give a quick update. Unfortunately my SD card reader isn´t working anymore so I can´t upload any more pictures. I´ll search around town to try and find a replacement but im not optomistic =( I just found out that this place has a mini UBS cable so I guess I´m in luck today but who knows about tomorrow... but back to the beach talk.
The deal is that I´m staying at this cool little spot down on the beach north of town. It´s got maybe 5 houses that each have a few rooms for rent and one house that will cook for you if you pay them. I think I´ve heard a word for that before... the beach there is amazing! Huge waves crash right in front of me and the sound of the surf in the morning is deafening from my bed. Everyone that I´ve met at this beach went there for just `a couple days´ and ended up seeing 5 weeks fly by so it was great fortune for me that I rolled in the day after a big group left and picked up the best room there for $25 a night.
Most people there cook their own meals and then spend the rest of the night drinking and what not so last night I hung out at the home of `mushroom mark´who is so well established that he built a bar/kitchen out of driftwood and entertains there. Actually he just talks endlessly but he´s fairly entertaining so I guess its ok. Also, on the bus ride into town today I ran into a girl who´s also from Moraga, CA! She said that her name is Julia Sakkis and that she´s a friend of my sister. She also mentioned that on the islands in Panama that I´m headed towards (Bocos del Toro) the owner of the most popular bar (Mondo Taitu) is from Orinda. Small world.
This morning I got woken up when Mario was running aroung shouting ´Tortuga´which means turtle. Turns out that baby turtles were popping up out of the sand and we all needed to see it. After the turtles do their thing on the beach at night, the owner of my hotel digs them up and reburries them in the yard so that the locals dont dig them up and eat them. So, the turtles were popping up in the sand filled yard and we helped by digging them out, putting them in buckets of water and helping them to the surf. I got lots of great pictures.
I think that this afternoon I may actually go surfing or maybe just swimming and get some reading done. I paid for 3 nights at this hotel and I think I´m going to regret not doing more. Most importantly though, I need to get a bottle of Flor de Cana, the best rum in the world by most accounts, and some coke for cuba libres on the beach. I met a bunch of other guys staying a few rooms away from myself and they showed me some of the other nearby beaches. The one just north of us is a small one entirely occupied by a walled compound belonging to the richest family in Nicaragua. That means that we get the whole place to ourselved and the sand has been meticulously combed of rubbish. Sweet.
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