Right now we are in taganga, staying at an awesome hostel called techos azules. Taganga is a small fishing town that is now like a backpackers haven just outside santa marta, on the carribean next to tayrona national park. It is paradise. There's a little beach that's pretty quiet. The water is crystal clear. The town is like 6000 people, and there's a strip along the beach with a bunch of huts selling cute little foods and stuff.
Last night we hired a fisherman to take us out this morning. It turned out not to be a very professional oepration, but it was fun anyway, because we got to go spear fishing with snorkel gear and harpoons. Spear fishing is the most fun I've had. The fish are bright, tropical fish, about twenty feet under you, but the water is like glass so you can chase them all around and it's fun. I didn't hit any fish, but neil hit two. He's a real sharpshooter. Later, we feasted on the fish that we caught spearfishing and regular fishing in the kitchen at our hostel. Ryan was really good at regular fishing. I was good at writing a blog entry about it.
Last night, we were laying on the beach, and Neil spotted the distant silhouettes of a girl in a pony tail flanked by a girl with a short haircut. We jumped up and ran over and, low and behold, it was our two favorite fellow travelers, kate and kate (one from australia, the other england). If you haven't been reading, we hung out with them in bogota the first night we went out, then met them in manizales at our hostel, where they beat us in an awesome poker match. We swam with them all night, and wen to ladies' night at a bar here that looks out over the bay.
Taganga is like the beach in The Beach with Leonardo Decaprio.
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