Today is our weekend, or vacation day, this week. We met at 8 am to go to a resort at Costa del Sol, an hour from San Salvador on the Pacific coast, for the day with the promise of a beach, boat tour, and all the food you can manage (just what I need after a week in Nicaragua where all food is fried). Valerie and I shared a fresh coconut, not the one Adam helped Marshand pick!
We were given a boat tour of the mangroves and saw some wildlife, a lot of birds and some four-eyed fish, which jumped across the water. Our guide pointed them out to us several times. We are a little skeptical of the four-eyed fish, because none of us have had time to research its authenticity. These are some of the houses we saw on the boat tour.
The beach is dark sand and enormous. The Pacific water down here is warm, unlike the cold water off the California coast. The water was rough with huge waves and very dark. We all waded in the water and Adam, Joe, and Marianne decided to go swimming. Valerie and I stayed on the beach to watch everyone’s stuff. While we were talking and discussing how cool the ocean was and how much we loved being at the beach, an enormous wave came in very quickly and covered us and all our delegations belongings with water and dark sand. We were at least 100 feet from the previous wave line and just got this one huge surge. All our clothes and towels were dirty and wet. Valerie decided the wave was not cool and retreated to the pool; I returned to the beach to read a book but ended up napping. It was wonderful.
An interesting thing happened while I was napping on the beach… I was awaken by shuffling in the sand, when I looked up I saw a cow and her baby walking about 15 feet in front of me… on the beach! I wish I had my camera, but I left it by the pool in the unlikely event of another surge.
A pool of water was left on the beach during low tide; cattle were grazing by it.
