Garbage beach.... And pool! I had read in my travel guide that at Hotel Bambu, you could take one of their gigantic potato sack bags and if you fill it with garbage from the beach you get a free cocktail. So we headed over there to do our good deed and collect our reward! Mom and I, thinking tons of people would be taking advantage of this opportunity turned out to be wrong..... We didn't even have to walk 150 m away from the hotel before both of our bags were c...

Walk down the beach to Canoa beach hotel. Found AWESOME shells! I had read that down the beach at an expensive hotel you could buy craft beer, and Canoa was a good place to go beachcombing for shells. On the way to the hotel we ended up finding some really really cool Spondylus shells with really crazy points on them! I glued them to make them stronger and packed them the best I could so hopefully they make it home in one piece! We won't know until mom gets home...

Crazy fish haul and off to Canoa! Eventually.... One of the things I read about Puerto Lopez was early in the morning all the boats bring the catch from the night before to the beach where they sell to the restaurants and merchants in the area. Well we were not disappointed and it was an extremely cool site to see! They had tables set up where they were cleaning the fish, squid and giant shrimp! There was quite a crowd around one boat where people were buying th...