2.2

Today we went on one of our “conditioning swims” again. It was also raining again, but not thundering and lightning like last time. We were riding down the mountain in the dyna and it was just pouring! On some stretches of the road there is a steep cliff and you can see out over the landscape to the ocean, but you could barely see ten feet off the cliff, that’s how hard it was raining! Of course it made the dirt road more like a muddy slip n slide, but we had a really good driver this time that went nice and slow, and thankfully we got to Nagada (the beach) with our bottoms still attached!

The jungle in the rain isn’t something that you can describe or show in pictures (it would just come out like a massive green blob fuzzied up even more by the wall of water). But it gives you chills because it’s so beautiful. It kind of looks unreal, like something from a fantasy movie, with these giant trees, hanging vines and flowers. The rain comes down and it looks just like clear lines and then the mist comes up and it looks magical. The sound just puts you to sleep too! The bugs are taking shelter and the all the leaves sound like little drums. Too bad I was on the dyna though; I couldn’t take a nap :_(