Delight in the Little Things in Life...Like the Beach

The beginning of September we had the opportunity to get away for the weekend enjoying one of our favorite things...the beach. Nicaragua is not known for the best beaches, but when your from a land locked state far from any beach, they are not too bad. We went to our favorite beach area, San Juan del Sur, about a 3 hour bus ride south of Managua. The beach in the town of San Juan del Sur is not the prettiest, but there are many beaches near there that are absolutely gorgeous.

Our friend, Beth, from MCC went with us...she likes the beach as much as we do. We spent the days enjoying the water and the sun and at night we enjoyed good food and a little bit of the night life. The first night we were there we went to a a place on the beach that had a bonfire, a fire thrower and a live band...we mainly went to see the fire thrower. We saw the fire thrower, but he only did it for 5 minutes, so it was not as exciting as we had anticipated. However, it was nice to sit on the beach with the cool ocean breeze listening to live music.

We spent one day at a nice pool that overlooks San Juan del Sur...it was a fun relaxing day. Although my favorite day was our last day. We took a water taxi to spend the day at a beach north of San Juan del Sur called Majagual. We saw a secluded beach in the distance that we decided to walk to called Florcita. The walk included scaling some rocks to get around bends. Once we finally arrived to Florcita, the sand was white, the water was crystal clear (you could see your feet while in chest deep water) and we were the only ones on the beach...it was heaven. After being there for several hours the tide began to rise, so we decided we should get back to the other beach since we knew there was one section that would be difficult to pass if the tide was too high...you can see it was a bit difficult the way it was. We spent the rest of the day enjoying the ocean at the other beach, which was beautiful and had crystal clear water it just had larger waves.

The boat returned in the late afternoon to take us back to San Juan del Sur. The driver had decided to do some fishing on the way back because he saw birds swarming and diving for fish, so he knew there were schools of fish in the area. So, we got the experience of watching Nicaraguans fishing...as you can see in the picture there is no pole. Once enough fish were caught we began to head back when we saw (what I can only imagine as extremely rare) turtles mating. Yeah, I said mating and on the surface of the water. Seth and I have seen a turtle laying eggs, a baby turtle and snorkeled with turtles, but this was a new experience all together. The turtles were not scared of the boat (I am sure because they were busy), so we were able to take several pictures and Beth got a video. They finished and swam deep into the ocean, so we proceeded back to the bay. In the distance we saw another turtle swimming, but it was scared off quickly once the boat got too close. Once we got back to the beach at San Juan del Sur we enjoyed watching the sunset because it made for a perfect ending to a glorious day.