Well, that was pretty cool.

The past few days have been pretty busy to say the least.  A friend from down the beach named Surfer Steve had his birthday on the Monday after the SuperBowl party.  This rendered most of the people who have been helping with the house pretty inoperable for the two full days.  My cousin and I decided that it would be a good use of time to go into the estuary and cut down a bunch of the bushes and shrubs so that we could drive through the forest to the property.  With him wielding a saw and myself with a Pick-Axe, we managed to punch a hole through the forest to the main road.  This means that now we can drive straight through the estuary, which is basically a desert in the dry season (floods in the rainy season), to the property.  It was a pretty good use of the afternoon.

That evening a group of us went to Playa Amerilla and had a sunset surfing session.  Wow, was that ever cool.  I came pretty close to riding one of the waves, I was in a good spot and managed to get into the wave, but got up too far on my board and went straight over the nose.  The sunset surfing session was just amazing.  There were probably about 8 of us out there and it was fun to get into the water and watch a bunch of people who knew what they were doing.

The next day was pretty much a write off since my cousin had to go into the town about an hour away to pick up some things.  I got up on some sleep and a little bit of reading, but mostly just relaxed a bit.  I learned a really fun dice game today called 10,000 that I will definitely have to show people when I get home.  Or if people already know it, just play it when I get home, because it's really fun.  Today we got up early as usual and my cousin and I went up and finished putting on the knee braces on the posts.  After that we went down to see how the well diggers were making out at the well.  Here is a little bit of history on my cousin's well.  All of the wells that have been dug in the area of Gigante average around 15 to 17 feet deep before water is found.  My cousins well is currently 31 feet deep and the well digger's are digging through what they call Roca Azul (Blue Rock).  This blue rock is insanely hard and is making the well digger's lives quite a bit harder than they normally would be.  Thinking that we might be able to help them save time with the digging process, we offered the use my cousins generator and hammer drill.  My cousin decided that it would be a good idea for one of us to go down and try to help him out to see if the hammer drill would work.  I volunteered to hop into the well, mostly because I wanted to take some pictures and have something to talk about on here.

So I got to the bottom of the well via a rope with a branch through it to sit on and got to the bottom which was quite the place.  It was extremely warm and humid because of the moisture content within the soil.  I was down there for about 45 minutes to an hour helping the well digger with the task at hand.  The rock is insanely hard.  We went at this one section of stone for close to an hour and it would not budge.  Crazy stuff.  I'm pretty tired right now, that well took it out of me.  But just thought I would put up some new pictures of that and show people what's been going on.

From Nicaragua, this is CJAM.