Out and about - reposted due to unexplained disappearance

Yes, very much out of character we actually went and did something besides surfing and sitting. I like to think this move was motivated by our adventurousness and drive to explore but it was potentially just so we had something to write about on the blog.

So we were told about some salt water pools a five minute, 50 cent bus ride from El Tunco, called Palmercito. So once Stuff had satisfied his surf hit in the morning we set off in the heat of the day. Now as we understood it we simply needed to catch a bus heading to La Libertad, inform the driver we want to get of at Palmercito and bobs your uncle. We soon discovered that the way we were saying Palmercito simply was not being understood this was not helped by a preacher type screaming the lords word in Spanish a little closer to my face as I'd choose. Pretty soon we spotted a sign welcoming us to La Libertad so we jumped of feeling a little discouraged by our failure to get where we'd planned to go. We had however wanted to check out the fish market in La Libertad so headed towards the pier. 

The fish market was really interesting, although a little disheartening as we saw quite a lot of very small shark fins out drying. Still looking at the size of the boats and fleets, this is not an industrial scale fishery. We also saw a dead baby hammerhead and some jewelry made from dried seahorses.

We then found tourist information and once again attempted to locate Palmercito. After we both attempted the name to the tourist info lady several times the ball dropped and she finally understood and repeated the name back to us as far as I can tell this sounded identical to what we had been saying! However we did discover that it was in fact in the opposite direction to what we had been told so we jumped back on a bus (after a little more ignorant wondering about) and headed back the way we came. We passed El Tunco and on to be dropped at Palmercito.

We walked down a deserted cobble track to a very quiet beach and found the pools at one end. They looked really cool although Stuff was not so impressed with the algal inhabitants, still we both had a dip before heading back to the road. On the way we stopped for a quick beer then caught another bus home.

By Things

Photos below of the fish market and the well kept secret of Palmercito.