Just outside my condo...BULL ON THE LOOSE!
Again I was woken up unexpectedly today. It turns out a local broke his quad outside of our room and decided to fix it…AT 6AM! He felt the need to bang it with a wrench and test the gas for 10 minutes. Not cool.
Becky and I decided to just stay at Ocotal today and I would show her around. We began walking to the beach and suddenly see cattle roaming the streets. We both had no idea what was going on. I spotted the bull, WITH HORNS, a mere 30 yards away. Becky had a red beach towel. Things did not look good. It turns out the bull was more worried about the grass at the side of the road but I must say it caused quite a scare at first. We ended up making it to the beach safely.
I saw something out there
We trekked all over the north and south sides of the beach. I wanted to show her the snorkeling spots. We bumped into a local who told us there were a ton of jellyfish and showed us where he got stung. He also told us about the “tortuga” (turtle) shells he dives for. They make bracelets and necklaces because when the sun shines through them the light dispurses and they do look pretty nice. He also said they used them for pick guards. Apparently they go for quite a bit of money as well. I was able to understand the majority of the conversation but unfortunately couldn’t say much back. A few “Aqui?” questions and “Donde?” questions kept the conversation going. He didn’t care that we didn’t speak Spanish and neither did we. It was like a fun game of charades.
We made it back to the condo ok and basically relaxed for the rest of the day. Thankfully the cattle was brought back into the grazing area. I finally did my laundry so I have clean sheets and clean clothes for this next week. Tomorrow we leave for Arenal to do a day tour. We will go to a wildlife reserve, a hot spring, and see the volcano. Since we will be picked up at 7:30AM and return at 10:30mPM I’ll leave the post at this. Be prepared to see a TON of pictures in tomorrow’s post.
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