Beach Time
After a long morning, a few long days and a long week, we finally headed to the beach.
We arrived at Playa Costa del Sol at around 4:15 pm. We were very ready for some rest and relaxation. The boys had been griping about missing the Badgers game and their complaining paid off, because they got an offer to ride in a car instead of the bus and arrived a lot sooner than the rest of us.
Just look at these poor deprived souls.
This was the view from the driveway that we pulled into.
The beach house is surrounded by coconut trees, and there was a guy climbing to the top and harvesting them for us to eat. This tree is probably fifty feet tall, and he scampered up the side of it with no ropes or safety harnesses of any kind.
Here's a close-up, so you can see him in among the fronds.
Here's a wide-angle so you can get a better idea for how tall the tree is. You're seeing about half the height of the tree in this photo.
There was a pool and a "hot" tub, which was the only hot tub I've ever been in where the water was actually cold (for obvious reason, in 94 degree weather, I guess). The kids spent a long time playing Five Hundred in the pool.
Obviously, we played in the ocean as well. The ocean water was warm - even warmer than the pool. They didn't want to lose any of us to a rip tide, so there was a lifeguard to watch over us.
A mist started to roll down the beach into the water as the evening wore on.
It was quite the sunset. Since the entire coast of El Salvador faces south, the sun rises and sets over the ocean every day. I wish we could have seen a sunrise from there as well!
We enjoyed a delicious dinner after sundown.
And then I finished off the night with some time lapse photography on the beach.
As you can see, El Salvador is a beautiful country and by all rights, it should be a paradise to live in. It makes it all the more jarring to see poverty surrounded by such magnificence. Elizabeth and I were honored to be able to help deliver healthcare to our friends to the South and I pray for a time to come when mission trips like this are no longer needed and we can visit in the peace and tranquility that we all long for.
Until next time, El Salvador!
We arrived at Playa Costa del Sol at around 4:15 pm. We were very ready for some rest and relaxation. The boys had been griping about missing the Badgers game and their complaining paid off, because they got an offer to ride in a car instead of the bus and arrived a lot sooner than the rest of us.
Just look at these poor deprived souls.
This was the view from the driveway that we pulled into.
The beach house is surrounded by coconut trees, and there was a guy climbing to the top and harvesting them for us to eat. This tree is probably fifty feet tall, and he scampered up the side of it with no ropes or safety harnesses of any kind.
Here's a close-up, so you can see him in among the fronds.
Here's a wide-angle so you can get a better idea for how tall the tree is. You're seeing about half the height of the tree in this photo.
There was a pool and a "hot" tub, which was the only hot tub I've ever been in where the water was actually cold (for obvious reason, in 94 degree weather, I guess). The kids spent a long time playing Five Hundred in the pool.
Obviously, we played in the ocean as well. The ocean water was warm - even warmer than the pool. They didn't want to lose any of us to a rip tide, so there was a lifeguard to watch over us.
A mist started to roll down the beach into the water as the evening wore on.
It was quite the sunset. Since the entire coast of El Salvador faces south, the sun rises and sets over the ocean every day. I wish we could have seen a sunrise from there as well!
We enjoyed a delicious dinner after sundown.
And then I finished off the night with some time lapse photography on the beach.
As you can see, El Salvador is a beautiful country and by all rights, it should be a paradise to live in. It makes it all the more jarring to see poverty surrounded by such magnificence. Elizabeth and I were honored to be able to help deliver healthcare to our friends to the South and I pray for a time to come when mission trips like this are no longer needed and we can visit in the peace and tranquility that we all long for.
Until next time, El Salvador!
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