4-Wheelers

Hello All: We had an unfortunate start to the morning, but our day turned out pretty well. We had a scuba/snorkeling trip planned for today, but the scuba site gave very unclear directions about where we were supposed to go and we ended up in the wrong spot. It’s a long story, and Bill probably typed it up so I’ll let him tell that one.

The scuba mix up was frustrating but we came back to Brasilito, went down to a local tour place and signed up for a bunch of tours that should be really fun. We did 4-Wheelers this morning and went to several beaches. One of them was awesome with potentially good snorkeling and some super neat spider starfish and other sea creatures in tidal pools. I’m a big fan of tidal pools. The water is always clear and they are full of interesting creatures. I could have spent more time there. Part way through the trip, I hit a large pothole in the road and broke the wheel off my 4-wheeler. Bill said he saw me keep going and my wheel rolled down the road behind me. I had to ride with Bill for a while, which was fine. That gave me a chance to look around rather than concentrating on the craters in the dirt roads we were on. We saw a road grader but it wasn’t pushing gravel or dirt into the holes, it was just scraping over the top of the road. I can’t imagine that 4-wheelers or any other vehicles last long on those roads. They are dry and fill of holes now. As soon as it starts raining, they will be full of muddy craters with small rivers running though them.

After lunch, we took our boards to the beach and spend a long time making largely unsuccessful attempts at boogie boarding. Late in the afternoon, a guy came out with his two boys aged maybe 11 and 14. All of them were catching waves and riding into the beach with no trouble. We tried to watch what they were doing, but still didn’t have much luck. It was a lot of fun though. While we were out, I saw a small, black fin go past Bill then swing around behind him. It probably wasn’t a shark, but it looked like mini-version of Jaws.

We had a delicious seafood supper. Francie, our server, brought out a big platter with a couple different kinds of baked fish and shrimp and some stirfry vegetables. It was really good. Francie was really chatty tonight so I talked to her for a while and she left me her phone so I could watch videos of her pets while she waited on other people. She has a kid who is probably about six, 3 dogs and a cat. Her house sounds like a zoo.

I’m running out of energy really fast and I know Bill has a longer post so he can fill you in on details I’ve missed. He works on his posts through the day but I save mine for the evening. I’m also teaching an online class right now, so I manage that in the evening too. I completely redid the class over Thanksgiving break so I’m working out a few small glitches with it but nothing too serious.

I’ll post some pictures below and I think Bill has more that I’ll add to his post.