Day 8 blog by Connor.
The day started off with the typical breakfast, starting at around 7:30.
There we were served: eggs with chicken, rice with beans, watermelon,
pineapple, yogurt, and an excellent guava juice.
Following breakfast we got another hour and thirty minutes to wrap up our
experiment and presentations. Our groups were under a ton of stress
considering we changed our project two days ago.
We were sitting on the deck inserting our final data into the
presentation when Ibrahim came by and helped us finish up right before the deadline.
Presentations lasted around three hours with our group pretty much going last.
After presentations we went directly to lunch where we got spaghetti.
Lunch was delicious with another amazing kiwi juice.
Right after lunch, we gathered our stuff and headed to a second waterfall in a tractor.
It was a bumpy ride! Once we got there we were met with Minnesotans at an organic farm.
She took us through her farm and introduced us to the French tour guide.
We started the hike around 1pm on nice flat grass.
However, it slowly become more and more difficult.
The trail was covered in mud along with sections where we crossed the streams.
We arrived at the waterfall 30 minutes later with an amazing view.
The waterfall was huge and pretty deep.
As we ventured down towards the waterfall we began to question
how we would be able to get back up once we realized it was pouring,
we had no clue what to do. We ended up just going with the flow and trekked through it.
Everyone’s boots were filled to the top with water, which made it extremely hard to
get back up the hills. When we were almost done with swimming it began down pouring,
and all of the rain water came flying down the hill.
We eventually got the okay to go onto the trail so we went ahead on our gnarly
adventure consisting of mud and rain boots filled with water along the way.
We arrived back at the farm and were greeted with coffee, and flavored water,
with a fire to sit by. Everyone took the tractor home and we later arrived at Finca la Anita.
Once home, everyone went straight to dinner.
Dinner consisted of chicken, pork, beans and another mango juice.
Today was one to remember!!
Tomorrow we leave Finca la Anita and head to Horizontes research station!
There we were served: eggs with chicken, rice with beans, watermelon,
pineapple, yogurt, and an excellent guava juice.
Following breakfast we got another hour and thirty minutes to wrap up our
experiment and presentations. Our groups were under a ton of stress
considering we changed our project two days ago.
We were sitting on the deck inserting our final data into the
presentation when Ibrahim came by and helped us finish up right before the deadline.
Presentations lasted around three hours with our group pretty much going last.
After presentations we went directly to lunch where we got spaghetti.
Lunch was delicious with another amazing kiwi juice.
Right after lunch, we gathered our stuff and headed to a second waterfall in a tractor.
It was a bumpy ride! Once we got there we were met with Minnesotans at an organic farm.
She took us through her farm and introduced us to the French tour guide.
We started the hike around 1pm on nice flat grass.
However, it slowly become more and more difficult.
The trail was covered in mud along with sections where we crossed the streams.
We arrived at the waterfall 30 minutes later with an amazing view.
The waterfall was huge and pretty deep.
As we ventured down towards the waterfall we began to question
how we would be able to get back up once we realized it was pouring,
we had no clue what to do. We ended up just going with the flow and trekked through it.
Everyone’s boots were filled to the top with water, which made it extremely hard to
get back up the hills. When we were almost done with swimming it began down pouring,
and all of the rain water came flying down the hill.
We eventually got the okay to go onto the trail so we went ahead on our gnarly
adventure consisting of mud and rain boots filled with water along the way.
We arrived back at the farm and were greeted with coffee, and flavored water,
with a fire to sit by. Everyone took the tractor home and we later arrived at Finca la Anita.
Once home, everyone went straight to dinner.
Dinner consisted of chicken, pork, beans and another mango juice.
Today was one to remember!!
Tomorrow we leave Finca la Anita and head to Horizontes research station!
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| Starting our hike |
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| Our group, CHAM(P) presenting our research. |
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| Students on the trail |
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| swimming at the waterfall |
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| Recovering from the cray hike at Hacienda Luz del Corazon |
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Thanks Connor for sharing the updates from today. Sounds like it was busy with wrapping up your experiments and presenting the results. The hike seems like it was quite the adventure! The pictures at the waterfall look like everyone was having a well deserved break. Safe travels to the coast!
ReplyDeleteCertainly a memorable last day at Finca la Anita. Hope all your experiments and presentations went well. The waterfall looks beautiful and fun... the hike back and forth sounded like quite the challenge! Makes for a good story!!
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