Life's a beach!

Well the rain has stopped - in fact it only rained that first day and since then we have had glorious sunshine. In the sun this place is lovely - it backs right onto the beach - literally we open our door and there is the sea - brilliant. The people that run the place are very friendly and it also serves food - you sit at tables overlooking the sea (or in hammocks).

A couple of days ago we went to the beach, which has amazing black sand due to the volcanoes, the sand is very fine and shimmers in the sunlight, it also feels like it contains loads of energy, probably due to all the minerals. Anyway, we sat on the beach whilst Sam surfed and a local guy brought a tray of 12 fresh oysters with worcester sauce, salt and lime and we sat there and ate them for $5 (there was no-one else around) brilliant eh?

That evening we had a BBQ at a couple's house in El Zonte. They have a villa overlooking the sea and we BBQ'd Cuin fish (I've never heard of them but they were delicious). Sam ate the fish's eyeball!! The walk there was fun - it was pitch black and we had a little torch to light the way, but there were also hundreds of fire flies - like little sparks all around in the trees, We negotiated pot holes, puddles and dog poo to get there but all arrived in one piece and the way home was even more fun after a few beers!

A coupld of Americans stayed at out hotel a couple of nights ago and sat drinking all day, then around 6 (dusk) they went to the beach - they went to far into the sea and nearlly drowned and had to be rescued on a surf board by one of the locals...

Sam and Will have both done lots of surfing and Sam is learning more Spanish words and getting browner every day. Sam is currently still asleep as we stayed up and watched the Bourne Identity last night and Will is surfing. The only down side is I think we are spending way to much on food - the next place will have to have a kitchen.