Spain and Beyond

Daily Drena: Beware the pirates…

This weekend is another festival in San Jose, “Desembarco Pirata” (a.k.a. Pirate’s Landing). It appears that today is the main event, as there are hordes of people in our sleepy little town. We went from about 10 people in our town (literally…), to thousands. We headed down to the beach later in the afternoon so that Lorena could get her beach reading in and we discovered the hordes of people on our beach where she has been reading, ready to party! Lots of families enjoying themselves and waiting for the main event: Pirate’s Landing! Basically, there are two rowboats full of “pirates” that head to the beach, disembark, and drag their boat ashore. We were hoping they’d at least race each other, but they didn’t, so I headed back up to the house to get some dinner as I was starving and Lorena stuck around long enough to see the pirate’s land, but then headed home as her bare feet were frozen from the cold sand (although it was a really really nice and warm day out, but this was getting to be late in the evening).

Before the pirate boats showed up, Lorena read a little on the beach while I decided to take a walk down the beach and climb over the rocky outcroppings to the next beach. I found some interesting rock formations along the way, with red striations in the rock and what looks like rocks that were forced together in layers. Not being a geologist, I have no idea what they are, unless the red is some sign of high iron content, but it makes the rocks look neat with the red offsetting the black of the rocks. The second beach ended in some more rocks then a cliff, but the rocks overlooked the ocean, so I sat there for awhile, trying to capture some photos of the waves as they formed and crashed back down into the ocean. There was also a skim boarder who showed up and I was hoping to get a good shot of him, but in the 20 minutes he was there, he only ran in to make two attempts which were flops, oh well!