Last day in Mayto!

Hey guys!

Well today is my last day in Mayto. I am sad, but also ready to go home and see the family, my animals, and Dave. Oh yeah, I also need to make a plan for my future :/

Well, we have definitely had a very dramatic last couple of days...actually most of the drama was within a 12-hour time period. Wednesday night patrol started off like any other night patrol, but quickly became a bit scary. Sam and I had patrol with Jorge and cam e across this guy who had just finished raiding a turtle nest. When we came up, he ended up leaving and walking down the beach (this is what normally happens). Since another turtle was coming out of the water, we waited for her to start doing her thing. Suddenly the guy came up pretty fast on Jorge (his back was turned) and we shouted a warning at him and he turned on the lights. This guy was really drunk and staggering around and slurring his speech, so Jorge thought it wouldn't be a problem. Then we saw that he had a knife hidden up his sleeve. Jorge took the man aside and started talking to him. It looked like they were having a pleasant conversation and then it got a bit scary. Long story short, he threatened Jorge, his family, and our camp director Israel. Apparently, this guy thinks it is his duty to collect the eggs from the beach and we keep getting in his way. He was also disgruntled about having recently served time in jail for turtle poaching. Jorge was really rattled (which never happens), so we told him it would be better to just call it a night and head back to camp. We found out later that this guy has a pretty violent background, so Sam and I were glad we called it a night early.

Thursday morning I woke up to Sam shouting at me to get up bc a huge wave was coming. I wasn't really processing anything but saw that she was scrambling to get all of her things off of the floor of our tent, so I decided that it probably what I should be doing too. All of my possessions were up on the chair in less than a minute as three big waves came slamming against our tent. Our sneakers, which were outside the tent, went flying and Sam hurried to get them. Luckily, we didn't lose anything. We later found out that Israel was climbing the radio tower to get some really cool video of the waves sweeping over the camp. It would have been nice if he had warned us about the waves beforehand :)

Later that day a bee and a wasp stung me at the same time while I was in the shower. Like I said...it was a rough 12 hours.

The rest of the day was really pleasant. Tannya, our friend from Hotel Mayto, took us on an outing. We went to play del villa to see another turtle camp and her about their operation and also to a really xute resort that had the most amazing landscaping. After, we went to Tehuamixtle for a fabulous meal and to see Tannya's house, which was absolutely beautiful and had a gorgeous view of the sea.