March 25, 2018 - Las Glorias

Patience pays off. This morning Tobey was watching out the window and spotted dolphins – four in all. They swam past heading south then back to the north. Thirty minutes later, the show was over but we were happy to have seen them!

On a long walk on the beach we saw these guys digging for clam in the sand. They have a shovel type devise with a net attached that they drag through the sand and find the clams. It looked like hard work with small rewards.We also saw a large fishing trawler go by. We remembered seeing this little straw privacy boxes along the beach here from our last trip. They are actually bathrooms! I’m not sure I would want to use them, but if you gotta go, you gotta go and at least you have some privacy!The lifeguards and Marines patrol this beach, too. It’s probably a good thing since there are  so many people on this beach who consume a fair amount of alcohol. Cars and ATVs race up and down the beach, too!We watched as this bus pulled along the sand and parked just in front of us. There must have been 25 people that got out. They ended up setting up an awning and chairs and spent most of the day. About 5pm, they packed up and headed back down the beach – and got stuck in the sand! It took them a while, but they finally got out.The truck facing away from the other two in the next picture was also stuck in the sand. The truck and jeep were attempting to pull him free. We watched them try several different ways of pulling him out for about 20 minutes and he was still stuck! We didn’t stay any longer to see how they got him out, but he eventually made it out.Getting stuck in the sand seemed to be one of the events of the day. A car tried to pull onto  the beach in front of our RV and dug his front end into the sand. Tobey went out with his shovel and some of our leveling boards and tried to help them get free. They dug and pushed and Tobey got covered in sand, but it took a truck coming along with a tow strap to finally get him out. The wife turned to me while they were working and in English said, “that’s what happens when you tell them not to drive the car onto the beach. They just don’t listen!” It cracked me up! He made it a point to come over to the RV after they got free to thank Tobey again for helping! We are camped by this 3-level house. The owner, Jorge, stopped by this afternoon. The house had been damaged in one of the tropical storms and he is trying to get some repairs done. He wondered if we had a knife to cut some screen. We had scissors and he was happy to use that. He was telling us that if we need anything to let him know. He owns a hotel in Guasave, a town about 40km from here and we were welcome to come stay there or at his house!

Late in the afternoon, this airplane buzzed the beach several times – sometimes what looked to be about 10 feet above the beach! This was one of its higher trips over the beach.Another day in paradise ended with a beautiful sunset.