Zip Lines and Surfing

It is time again to add stories and photos to my blog of my latest adventures and visits.

Let's have a quiz before I go into the meat of the blog. Who can guess what this is?

 

Here's a clue. It is a fruit. The meat in the middle is pulled from the outer shell. Pop it into your mouth and you taste the moist sweet meat that is around a small seed. Use your teeth to remove the meat from the seed. It tastes great and report ably is very high in vitamin 'C'. I bought a dozen of these in a central market for a quarter.

As you all know, Central America is in the tropics and in the topics you get a lot of rain. You can expect some rain every day around late afternoon or early evening. Most of the rain fall is gentle with an occasional big storm with brief high winds and heavy rain. Here are some photos of a big one approaching our area. This thunder storm reminds me of storms that came through my home in Minnesota.

As bad as this looks it was no more than heavy rain. The winds were strong for only a few minutes and none of the boats at anchor dragged anchor.

One more item has been crossed off of my bucket list. Zip Lining! This area was smaller than some but was still fun. I am going to Honduras to again visit Copan. The Zip lines there are much longer and steeper. That means I can go faster. Let's hope they don't find an image of my body against a tree trunk.

This is a map of the area and the path we took. We were an average of 30 feet off of the ground as we crossed over the trees below.

Here we recieve instructions from our guide.

Photo of the cruisers that I went with. The area were we at is on a volcano just outside of San Salvador.

Here we go. The first few lines were short and not far off of the ground. The last two were longer and higher. You slow down by pulling down on the cable with a gloved hand which you place behind your head.

Coffee is grown in the area where we were. The quality of the coffee is best when it is planted at higher altitudes. Harvesting is in November. The beans now are green and turn red when ripe. Flowers like these grow wild in the hills and mountains above San Salvador.

The area were we were is on a volcano near San Salvador. We had a good view of the city below and a path around the rim of the volcano gave us a view of the large hole. The mound at the bottom is formed by the vent.

Next stop is Surf City, El Salvador. The small town of La Libretad is East of where we are anchored is a well known surf spot where suffers from around the world come to visit.  I joined other cruisers for a long weekend. Three of the other men are surfers and they had fun in the waves. I used a buggy board and joined them in the water. Yes I survived the BIG ones although I did swallow half of the ocean.

We stayed in a hostel the first night. Three of us shared this room which is smaller than the main cabin on my boat.

Here we are relaxing.

 

It is hard to capture the size and shape of the waves without a good camera.

That is it for now until the next time. Until then, be safe out there.