This is the mud volcano. It was muddy. And kind of crowded. I touched a lot of bodies that I didn´t mean to. After we got massaged by some natives inside the mud, some native women washed us in a lake. They tried to pull down our pants, i sort of stopped them. I wish I didn´t.


After the mud, we went to Taganga and went fishing. I harpooned this one. And tried to eat it right away because I was so excited. Ryan caught a couple fish with a fishing line. Literally just a fishing line. They made us pull the line in with our bare hands. I felt like we were in Old Man and the Sea. Ryan was the only one who caught one this way. I was the only one who harpooned one. Which way is manlier? For you to decide.


This was our fishing guide, Leondardo. I think that was his name. He caught a lot more fish than we did. He was a mer-man. Seriously. Without any fins, he could dive 30 feet to the bottom of the sea floor, while carrying a 10 pound harpoon in one hand, seek out the largest fish within 10 meters, and kill it. I couldn´t dive down more than 5 feet or so. Neither could the Dutch guys that were with us. Leonardo must have had magical swimming powers. He kind of looked like Mario effortlessly swimming in Mario 64. I think he caught about 10 fish or so. Above he is showing us how to gut and fillet what we caught. Ryan´s two fish are the pinkish ones in the foreground. We cooked them ourselves that afternoon, they were delicious!


Then we went to a huge national park called Tayrona. We hiked in a few hours through a sweaty jungle full of monkeys, and mosquitoes ready to infect us with Malaria and Yellow Fever. But in the end we got to see some awesome beaches. I really liked it here (even though Lewis said it was boring) because I could swim, sleep, play, climb, and go on adventures all day long. Below is me on a big rock. I did a triple somersault into the water right after this was taken.



These two girls are ´the kates´ both of them are named Kate. One is from the UK the other is Australian, but they both seem Australian. We ran into them multiple times throughout our trip and spent the whole time in Tayrona with them. This was our departing photo. It was very sad to see them go. They were awesome.


Then we went to San Gil, a small town in between the northern coast and Bogota. The first day we went white water rafting, which we don´t have any pictures of. But it was awesome. The next day we went rappelling down a 180 meter water fall.

That´s me up near the top in the green shirt and that´s Lewis half way down in the white shirt. Ryan had finished already and is taking the picture.

Exhilerating! w00t!




But our journey is now over. We are getting ready to fly away from this tropical hideout this afternoon. There are many more stories and photos to see, so find us and we will be happy to share!

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