Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Montezuma

So cool... we could tell right away this Pacific Coast was more our style. It was neat to see the Caribean because it was very remote and legit rainforest...but this side kicks ass. the caribean is more poor and kind of unsanitary. Only been here a day but it has been sunny so i´m going to get a tan after all and also the volunteering here is much more intense. we are building a hatchery right now so doing a lot of work dig ditches in the sand and making sandbags to put up for a wall against the tide. The place is so cool here...still very primitive we dont even have electricity and actually a 30 min beach walk from montezuma...but its so beautiful and more organized. We are also going to be clearing trails and doing shorter night patrols on the beach for turtles. Overall very different from the other organization but very cool.
Unfortunately ...again... my camera was stolen. they got into my adidas bag and into my camera case and then replaced it took nothing else and zipped my camera case back up. its off the beach quite a ways so i have an instinct it was someone at the place. definately upsetting... but i seem to be a target for it so i´m almost becoming immune. at least i downloading almost all my latest pics but too bad it was so early in the trip. but thats the reason i brought nothing else valuable. backtracking... we arrived in san jose at around 3 on sunday and our program guy (Henry) who takes care of the costa rican volunteers in the program is the sweetest man ever. He drove cass and i around for about 6 or 7 hours to places in san jose...bought us dinner, coffees, ice cream and packs lunches for us when we go out on bus rides SO SWEET! so he sent us off from san jose on a bus at 6 am yesterday took a bus, ferry, bus again, van and then walked and arrived at our volunteer base at like maybe 1 yesterday so long travel day. but for the most part we´re happy here. thats all for now...we have to haul back to the project to start hatchery work

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