We were out in the service all of this morning in the “Bococho” area. I worked along with Graciella, the ministry was good because i managed to find three english speaking people, all of whom come from the states (Indiana, California etc…). One out of the three was interested enough to take the Awake & Watchtower and a “Keep on the Watch” brochure in english of course! So I now have a return visit that I need to make! I sat in on a study of Graciellas while she conducted it in spanish. Again I followed along in english and was better able to understand the spanish. If that makes any sense, it gives you something to reference off (in fact it’s actually better to follow along with both English and Spanish).

… secret family recipe so they didn’t divulge …

We had lunch at Jorge’s Chicken joint, the infamous pollo (Chicken in spanish – Pronounced “Polh – Yoh”) restuarante in Puerto Escondido. It was as good as I remember it from the first time around too. Apparently it’s a secret family recipe so they didn’t divulge the finer details of the marinate.

Epic Escondido

I spent a fair bit of the afternoon on the internet uploading a lot of photos of our day trip tpo Puerto Angel and San Agustinillo. Afterward we headed up the beach for a surf. Initially the surf wasn’t anything we weren’t acustomed to so far in Puerto Escondido, nice and solid at about 6-8 foot maybe.

… 16 foot of mean Pacific ocean exacted it’s toll …

But then as it got later it climbed in size and I saw some of the biggest waves I’ve ever seen in my life. The wave face would have easily been two stories high, thats a big wave when you consider that the wave breaks in waist deep water. I saw a body boarder take a massive drop on the wave of the day and he took the take off seriously late, it was a wave I wouldn’t have even taken on a body board. He made the drop and bottom turned but some chop on the face of the wave cleaned him up then 16 foot of mean Pacific ocean (funny huh? when Pacific means peaceful.) exacted it’s toll and worked him over for good measure. I was happy to watch from the shore as a jetski towed in a surfer on to the waves one after another, it really was the best way to get on those big swells early and have the speed to get out of there as fast as possible. Having said all this it’s actually a better wave when it’s bigger because the wave stays open for much longer and doesn’t shutdown like it does when it’s under 8 foot and smaller… you know how it is.