Rainy boat trip! -- from Tom

On Tuesday the group put on our raingear and hopped in the boats. We rode a ways across the Serropta Pennisula, where we rode through a long canal. We finally got out at Chino’s house (he owns some property on the Peninsula and the ITEC research station property.) We walked through some mud and muck to a beautiful black sand beach, and we were careful to keep along the shore to avoid the strong rip tide. We waded in the shallows and dug in the dark sand, which had eroded from clastic volcanic rock and was smooth underfoot. Pete discovered a few empty sea turtle eggs at the top of the beach. Eventually we made out way back to the boats, and Pete picked a few figs from a tree in the river. He threw some over to my boat (they were admittedly pretty bitter) and we rode back to ITEC. It was a great experience.
* For most of the ride it was pouring rain, filling the boat so that we needed to bail out the boat.

-Tom Foley