We landed on the beach shortly after 
the fishermen had brought in the day's haul.








Part of the day's catch was Yellow Tail.

Britney tries to blow through the conch. 
Each student received one as a gift.

Day six started with Mexican style scrambled eggs and refried beans (like usual). We started with some whale watching, however since the water was rough we didn’t see anything. Then we stopped by the fishing village and visited some traditional fishermen and looked around their village. They had a small gravesite for the elders that have passed on and a mausoleum for the young boy who fell off the cliffs on the back of the island. After hiking to the top of the island we visited the "store" where the women of the island market their jewelry, hand –made with beads and shells found on the surrounding islands each of us buying at least one necklace or bracelet (some of us bought many). 

From there we went to see the whale bones, there was almost an entire skeleton lined up on the ground. The group headed down the beach and watched tuna fish get gutted. While walking along shore we found several piles of conch shells, the people of the village were extremely generous and allowed each of us to take one, (including one for Chantel at home). This followed with many disgruntled students when they were unable to make the conch make a trumpet-like noise, while others almost got it on the first try. On our way back to the pangas we saw a small hammerhead shark the fishermen caught in their nets the night before.

After this we headed to San Evaristo to see the commercial salt pans, landing on the beach we came upon a young boy and girl who we gave a gift bag each. We then hiked across the island because it was too windy to take the pangas to the other side where the salt pans were. We visited a few families and left them gift bags as well. After that we visited the salt pans which then we visited the beach on the other side of the island where we could collect agates and take them home. Then we started back and on the way back we saw a wild donkey on the side of the road. When we got back to the boats, the tide had come in and we had to go farther into the water to get on board (which sucked for the people who had worn running shoes). After this we went whale watching on our way to the island where we would be staying for the night. (As of yet we still have not seen any).

After supper we viewed pictures that Lela and Stasia had taken over the past few days, which gave everyone a few laughs (including the crew). We also played Mr. Martin’s game where we matched a small piece of someone’s face to the person and picture it came from. (This gave everyone a chance to see the bad pictures he took of them).

That just about sums up everything that happened on day six. (By the way everyone has recovered from the jellyfish incident; no casualties! (Yet)).

Pam and Kristy