July 9/2011

Today was quite the adventure. Woke up this morning to be on the road for seven, at which point we took a minibus, taxi, and ferrie to get to our destination "Ometepe island". This island has two volcanos, lagoons, and waterfalls. We began the day by eating breakfast at a diner that was absolutely delicious. I had what seemed like french toast but with honey and cinnamon. We then decided that it would be a good idea to rent dirt bikes and ride around the island on our own without a tour guide. Well first of all, none of us had ever driven dirt bikes, and not one of us had identification on us. They let us take them anyway, and I took a scooter instead of a dirt bike. John crashed his dirt bike just as Jason was giving his "word" instead of a drivers license. John got demoted to a scooter, and we then practiced driving these things (that were really touchy) driving in circles in a gas station. We decided that maybe driving these things around would be a bad idea especially because we really didn't know where we were going. Got our money back, and then hired a driver to take us to ojo de agua. Ojo de agua was a spring made from a stream from the volcano "concepcion". The water was beautiful and we were able to swing on a rope into the crystal clear waters. That concluded our trip to the island, and we headed home to basecamp.