Our last week in Costa Rica

Well, after nearly a month here, I think we may have found a spot we like as much as we love Hawaii.  The temperatures are about ideal...  you can be out and about pretty much anytime of the day once you get acclimated to it (those first few nights in Torteguero were really hot but I'm thinking now that we'd handle them with aplomb).  We've finally been able to spend some quality beach time and the beaches here..... WOW.    Think miles of sandy beaches with perhaps 2-3 people you can see...  and you can easily walk somewhere that there are no people.

Today we swam at three different beaches all within about 10 miles of here.  Perfect waves for body surfing to perfect snorkeling to perfect for surfing if you wanted to...  and then late in the afternoon we found another...  picture this.  You walk in to 90 degree water, clear as a bell and with the famous azure blue that you expect of the Caribbean into perfect white sand, not deep, no drastic drop offs, etc... you put on your mask and swim out... beautiful reefs with lots of fish and then you hear a splash... you look up and pelican's are dive bombing into the water to catch their dinner... so you float on your back and watch them as you drift in the gentle waves along this peninsula that looks like it has been untouched by humans... and you notice a large iguana sunning on the rocks not 20' from you... then you look up and see Howler monkeys in the trees above you.  THAT's this beach.  Hawaii has some very tough competition here!

Right up next to that peninsula in the background is the  section of beach I'm talking about... but this part is only 500 yards away and its at least as nice as any in Hawaii...

Jen took this picture... she got Rachel to stand in front so she could take a picture of the man/horse (the girl isn't bad either!).  They washed the horse down and of course then it promptly rolled around in the sand!

Shawn's pushing to get access to the computer so I'll pass it over to him and bring you up to speed on the zip lining and other activities later.  Tomorrow we spend one last day in CR and then we spend all day Saturday getting to NYC for three days.  Hasta la vista baby!

A few days ago.