Easter Snorkeling

Easter celebrations are getting absolutely insane. The main road in San Carlos has become a sort of moving party with people in trucks, cars, and ATVs cruising slowly along blasting music, hanging out of windows and sunroofs, and shouting at each other and nobody at all. I'm not sure where they're all coming from - the town is not big but the road has been PACKED with vehicles since late Thursday/early Friday. They tend to taper off a bit for siesta every afternoon, but then there they are, on the road again, until very, very late at night. Oh, and the sidwalks and beaches are jammed with people too. I guess celebrating Easter mainly consists of hanging out in public and having a party.

We ventured out today to go snorkeling at a cove on the other side of town. It was awkward but fun (walking into the water with big fins on your feet is hard!) and we saw some pretty tropical fish, sea urchins, and what I think might have been a dead seagull. I retreated to the beach long before Mark did, as I couldn't see all that well without my glasses on and it was freaking me out. I kept seeing dark blobs under the water, and if Mark was near, I'd ask him what it was and he'd look at it and reply with nonsense like "a carpet" and I knew it wasn't a shark. But if Mark wasn't near, it was just a dark blob...a dark blob that might have been a shark! So I collected seashells on the seashore after that and he snorkeled some more, perfectly capable of detecting sharks with his sharp eyes.



After that we went to a restaurant near our RV park and unknowingly ordered big bowls of raw shrimp swimming in very tasty cold broth (camarones aguachile). We loved it - it was pretty much Mexican sushi and of course I'm down with the sushi! There was A LOT of it too, for cheap.

The day before, we got "toritos" because they sounded like maybe a tortilla or maybe a burrito, but certainly something Mexican. Turns out, it was peppers stuffed with whatever you wanted (we got shrimp and fish) served in a kind of spicy soy sauce marinade. Who knew! (Not us.) It was really good; here's a picture.