Mango Rosa San Juan del Sur

... the baby turtles in baskets. Our first job for the evening was to carry the baskets down to the shore, line up parallel to the ocean, and release the little baby turtles one by one. That was fun! The little turtles fit easily into the palm of your hand, but they´re energetic and ready to go, and you can feel an amazing amount of strength in them as they pull themselves along. <br><br>After the last hatchlings were making their way ...

... risible. We couldn&#8217;t stop laughing, which made us swallow even more bugs. Although it was dark I still had my shades on to shield my eyes from the flies, but unfortunately no such protection for my nose or mouth. We eventually turned up at Finca Magdalena spitting out a kilo of bugs from our tongues, throats, nose, ears etc. To get there we had to go ride on a very bumpy dirt road and without much suspension, my back had taken the brunt of the impact, but I wasn ...

... If I only had a<br>beer in one hand and a pretty girl on the hammock with me to enjoy the<br>sunset with, life would have been pretty perfect right there. <br> <br>We stayed up drinking and listening to the radio play Gasonlina and the<br>other one I have just realised is played all the time. It goes Un Dos<br>Tres, I know ya want me, You know I want cha, and just goes on like<br>that. There was also an artist they were playing a lot who sounded ...

... front of me! Two shark fins. They were tiny and I was only in water about 3 feet deep so I know I was safe. They came out of the water about 6 feet in front of me, then dipped and came back out again. It was amazing. What a wonderful experience in a Pacific. Devin and I enjoyed another lazy day on the beach and a bonfire that night.<br><br>Devin and I fell in love with this little surfing village and we are <br>defiantly sad to go...<br>

... head high waves proved a little intimidating for me, and when one of them broke right on my head I discovered what it was like to lose a surfboard, the force of the water ripping the leash clean off my ankle. This, of course, would have to happen the one time I've borrowed a board instead of renting one, but my frenzied front crawl back to shore and the assisstance of a passerby enabled me to retrieve the board before it was damaged on the rocks.<br><br>The other ...

... gathering of doctors, witchdoctors, and midwives to come and talk about what they do &#8211; so we all took cabs to attend that. There were about 6-8 different people there and we split up into groups and interviewed different people about their practices and experiences. The midwives that we talked to were typical midwives, and seem to work in ways similar to those in America. The main difference I found between them was the lack of medical supplies and the use of roots ...

Hey there sports fans! Sorry to keep you in the dark for so long but Tracy and I were sucked into the black hole of Nicaragua. Also known as "San Juan del Sur", hereafter know as SJdS (because I dont like typing it everytime). We were there for about three weeks and met lots of great people, mostly from The States and Canada. And of course we spent alot of time with our good friends, Paul and Anne from Australia that we've been bumping into since ...

We never planned on coming to San Juan del Sur, we came off Ometepe, the island of volcanoes in the middle of Lake Nicaragua, with the goal of heading to a place called Gran Pacifica that we had learned about at a conference in Quito, Ecuador. We had heard the surfing was good at Gran Pacifica and we were in need of some cool Pacific breezes. Having lived in the highlands of the Andes for six months we were ...

... some more. Our longest is 16 hits. The other day we hired a surf board and caught a lift with some locals to another beach to try hang ten! It was loads of fun and a good work out. Surprisingly without a lesson we both managed to stand up (becs did a little better than Brad - its not his fault he is so lanky) and ...

... that was smothered in cloud. <br><br>The next day, I was a bit sore so I hung out in a hammock all day, reading, and the next morning I headed to the other part of the island to Finca Magdelena. The finca is a cooperative organic coffee farm that also runs a hostal. There´s not too much to do there, most people (like me) just go to climb Volcan Maderas. <br><br>This hike was a little more ridiculous than the other. Trails in Central America usually aren´t ¨built¨ like they are in the ...