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Day 4 - part 1

Morning sunrise.

Our morning adventure takes us on a hike up an arroyo (riverbed).

The geological make up of the area is very unique. There are
fossilized shells from an old seabed in the limestone sedimentation.

As we hike up the arroyo we happen upon a goat carcass.

Afraid of the wild human consuming animals hidden in
the arroyo we send the head nurse up the path on a reconnoiter.
Not really, it just sounded good!

Some of the guys got caught up
hunting for crystals with Sean and Lela.

Finally we find the main vein and it was huge.

A beautiful little hummingbird looks on as we pass by.

?, Roslyn and Cheryl pose for a
picture in a chunk of fossilized sedimentary rock.

A Barrel cactus grows amongst the rocks.

The students frolic in the wild.

Josh and Jesse chillax while the group emerges from the arroyo.

After breakfast we set off to explore a small settlement of
goat herders. Here some of the fishermen have returned
with their days catch. Without electricity and salt to preserve
the fish, it will be consumed by the settlement immediately.

Snapper, cardinal and trigger fish are the catch of the day.

The students look on as the fishermen clean their catch.

Some of the villagers come down to the beach to say hi.

They too received a few gifts.

We were invited to explore the area.
Our first stop was to visit this quaint little home.

This 5 foot monitor lizard was looking for a meal so we had to hide
the students in the palm trees. Monitor Lizards cannot climb trees.

All right, this is really a 9 inch dessert lizard that innocently crossed our paths.

One of the women sews awesome needlework of what she
encounters and observes from her home on the island of "Isla San Jose".

A little kid goat gets some attention from the group.

One of the women waters the goats at one of two wells in the area.

A few buzzards hang in the trees waiting for a student to fall in exhaustion.

We started our day on a morning hike. We took the pangas to the fossil beach and hiked up an old riverbed called an "arroyo". Our first thing we saw was the carcass of a dead goat. All skin and bones. I don't think I was looking forward to breakfast afterwards. As we hiked up the arroyo we saw hummingbirds, wild goats, creepy bugs and a few lizards. It was really neat.

Mr. Haggarty and the boys were up to something with Lela. They were looking for crystals in the sand. They had found quite a bit. Each one brought back a piece or two. They were pretty interesting.

After breakfast we visited a little village with only a few homes. Lela had brought them some gifts and we were able to give them out. One lady did some beautiful needlepoint which she sold to some of us. We visited some of the families to say hi and drop off the gifts. These people fish, goat herd and also have a few cows. The goats were cute. The babies came right to us and one chewed on Devin's shorts. After we got back to the boat we took a break and then decided to take a swim.

continued on Day 4 - part 2.

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