Tela

Hello, we are back from our three day trip to Tela and the island of Punta Sal. What an incredible experience. We went with the RVCC team from Wisconsin. Here are some pictures.

Unpacking all our luggage at the hotel in Tela. I thought we were going to pop a tire there was so much. Will drove the truck and Dave drove the van.

Our view from our room

Our room

Some kids playing in an asile

I dipped my feet in the pacific bathtub. It was so warm! You can see our hotel just behind me on the right.

Pizza for dinner

Waiting for our boat to pick us up to take us to Punta Sal island.

A part of Punta Sal

We went on a walk through the jungle of Punta Sal. This is a banana tree. You can see a cluster of bananas on the top left.

This is a poisonous snake. Yes and we all walked over it without knowing! We only found it because we had to walk back the same way. William spotted it first. Our tour guid told Will to move away slowly as it can jump up to 6 ft. It doesn't have fangs, but if it were to bite you it has venum to make a person very ill. PTL everyone was fine.

Here's a monkey. Some were big, like this one, but others looked quite small. Were they loud!

Our tour boat. The trip to the island took about 25 min. We left at 8am, so the water was pretty calm. We left the island at 2pm and the ride back was quite different!!! I wish we could have taken pictures of the swells that we were in for about 45 min.! But water was coming into the boat so fast that most of us used our towels to keep the salt water from getting into our eyes and mouth, or we just turned the other way. Dave got the brunt of the waves. He was a seat behind me on the side. Two times he got douced with water. He was a good sport and thank goodness no one was sick. It was a life time experience. And the tour guides to this everyday. I don't know how!

Only two families live on this island. It is a national park owned by the government. These families work on the island and whenever a tour boat comes in, they make a fish and chip dinner for those on the tour. They rarely leave the island. These are there homes and eating shelters.

Haaa relaxation

This is how they cook the meal

A house

Will and Dave with their fish tales

Drinking fresh cocanut. Will enjoyed it, but I thought it tasted like medicine.

They cooked our fish whole in a batter, with plantane french fries and rice and beans on the side. It was sooooo good. I demolished my fish. Dad you've be proud of me!

On Wed. morning we dropped off the team at the airport and headed back to the camp. Here is a picture along the way. We were very high up.

This morning we went into the market to get fruits and veggies. What a neat place. Busy, but cool. This afternoon we did some planning for the Parkdale team and delegated some jobs between Dave, Esther and us.

You can keep us in your prayers as we plan for this team. We only have two weeks before they arrive and there is much to do.

Prayer requests:

1. The material needed for the construction would be delivered on time

2. All the little details would come into place

3. Protection as we travel, the roads are nuts here

4. We would continue to stay healthy. We feel great, although the food is having an affect on our systems, so that God would protect our bodies and allow everything to return to normal soon.