a quickie

i know i have been terrible at keeping you all posted (all 4 of you following this) but here is a quick rendition of how my days have looked. ive been trying to avoid doing to much because my tour is going to be chaotic. im just relaxing and enjoying my down time until the daily travel begins for 5 weeks.

to be honest with you, im not really doing much. thats why i haven't written in my blog yet. im desperately trying to save money so i haven't dont much. i went to the national park which i think i told you about. i have hung out at the beach a few times in manuel antonio. mostly read my book at the hostel. got sick for a couple days. drove to tamarindo on monday. went on a turtle tour which was pretty cool. i got to see her lay eggs as i knelt 2 feet from her. very long day though 5.5 hrs of mostly sitting in a car or on the beach. then yesterday i wandered tamarindo for a bit. looked at the shops. sat at a bar and read my book. met 3 guys that i later hung out with 2 of them. one of which was the guy i poached his bed. now today i had my interent date with monika at 9am and then wandered tamarindo. i will probably chill out with my book soon. im trying to avoid the sun as much as possible (believe it or not).

and here is my turtle watching experience in a large nut shell

 it was a very loooong night. the guy told me 2 hours, and it was 5.5. ugh sooooo tired today now. but it was cool i just wish i would have gone on a different night. we saw am armadillo on the way out. they are super cute. i wish i would have asked the driver to stop so i could take a picture but i was to slow in my thinking process. (i was ready for bed at 7 last night)

there was a whole lot of standing and waiting. i never anticipated just having to sit there for hours but it totally makes sense now. they dont have legs adn they have to get along the sand somehow. then we had to sit and wait more for them to get to the dry part of the beach, under cover adn then we had to wait for the to find a spot to dig, then we had to wait for them to dig a hole to lay their eggs in, then we had to wait more while they dig their hole. fuck it was a lot of waiting. 

but it was cool to see them dig their hole. their little back legs (or fins, whatever you want to call them) really are quite usefull. they literally scoop the sand and throw it out of the hole. they did i pretty big hole too cuz they need to lay about 60-85 egs. then finally, after at least 45 min of watching it dig a hole (let me tell you that gets old REAL fast) we got to watch it lay its eggs. it was pretty neat. i got pictures of its hole with the eggs in it. this whole time, we were only 2 feet from it.

i have to admit, i really didn't like how some of it played out. people are idiots. they were so despart to film some of them, that they were practically chasing them down the beach. plus at one point, we were supposed to make a semi circle behind the turtle as it walked back to the water but some people were right in front of it blocking it from getting back to the beach. plus being so close to it while it laid its eggs. who knows how much stress we put on these poor turtles. as im thinking about this, i wonder if our presence tips off the turtles predators as to where the eggs are.

to be honest with you. i felt kinda crappy about what i was doing

it was also such a beautiful night thought. the stars were so beautiful!! plus there was lightning in the background and the outline of the mountains were awesome. oh, and the phosphorescents in the white wash of the waves was so intense some times. the water would glow some times. (it happens at night. something to do with algae and or other very small plants in the water glowing from the moon shining on them. but they only seem to glow with certain movement in the water. fish will glow at night too as they swim by your boat. i saw that at shearwater a few times)