Blue Jay Lodge Mal Pais

The plans of traveling from San juan to Costa Rica with my sister went out the window due to a nice dose of the swine flu, after a couple of nights with a 40 degree fever and about a week of lying in a hammock doing nothing I was good to go again and conveniently enough the Swiss guys that I was hanging out with a few weeks earlier showed up in town again and where about to head down to Costa Rica. It was nice to have people to travel with and even nicer that they ...

... Panther II (Malesa didn&#8217;t see much of the movie as she was just to worn out).<br><br>Day 7 &#8211; Friday, July 3, 2009 &#8211; The Beach and ATVs &#8211; We took it easy in the morning. Breakfast at Villas Hermosa does not start until 8:45. We ate breakfast at the Rancho by the pool. It was a great breakfast. The lady that was cooking was from Alaska (Costa Rica is a lot different that Alaska). Breakfast was rice &amp; beans, fruit (watermelon ...

... ride was very enjoyable. We saw tons of pelicans, some frigate birds, and even a brown booby. In Paquera the bus to Montezuma was waiting and a bumpy 2 hours later we were in funky little Montezuma. Our hotel was right in town which made it easy to sample many of the local restaurants. The rooms were comfortable and the airco ice ...

... I hope your all not dissapointed in me. So far its ok though I glued it shut after sanitizing the hell out of it so i´m pretty much set, though I cant go in the water Dr Stracco´s orders. But I did wake up early 6am and catch my first real fish of costa rica from shore, a 15lb jack that we will eat tonight with the tuna negra that lucas caught yesterday. Not as good as the dinner last night though, oyster ...

... top of the waterfall. So after getting back, we made a trek to the falls. It was quite a rough terrain hike along the river to the falls. But we were only at the bottom of the falls. It's another crazy terrain hike which requires us to scale a cliff and such. Since neither of us were well equiped with proper shoes, probably not a good idea we try. Sarah said we'd try again when we get back to montezuma and we try the hike again with proper ...

... his family. He also came bearing gifts from Pigtails!! Aghhhh!! Nik and I were beyond excited at having Christmas gifts to open and more so that those gifts were primarily chocolate, fudge and extremely practical items such as toothbrushes and deodorant, soooooo excited!! We were also treated to an amazing gift from Ian as well - a deep-sea fishing trip. We had planned the trip for Christmas Eve to treat ourselves to some fresh eatin´ for ...

... additives at a tiny beach side bar she owns with her husband. We also rode to Cabo Blanco Wildlife reserve but couldn't access the park from the Malpais side. We saw a green vine snake and heard the howler monkeys all the way. We passed a crazy little beach bar that played electronica. We arrived back to town exhausted and swam until sunset then couldn't find the bike shop in the dark so had to ride around for ages until we found the little house ...

... I´m so close! But didn´t realise that I was goofy (right leg forward) till the third lesson. Of course I was going to be goofy!! Great fun though. So Santa Teresa was a great spot and I would love to back in the high season when the partying really gets started...The owner of brunells had some good stories and a free T-shirt each for Lianne and I, after he snapped us for the website. And Lianne decided to come to Nicaragua with me. Yeah!

... the Amazing Race to Mal Pais! We had a good time knowing we only paid 12$ US or 6,000 colones. By the time we arrived they had already been there for 3 hrs. The waves are really great there the whole beach has peaks spread out everywhere so it was really great because even though there were surfers all over they where surfing different parts of the ocean. We stayed in a hostel that was the best hostel that Kristen has stayed, and she has been in a lot. It ...

... for Memphis. But really as long as Florida doesn't win I'll be happy. 3.26 Still just taking it easy in Mal Pais. We have learned that 90% of the people in our hostel are very, very good surfers...by watching they seem almost at the professional level, and they have all been here for a considerable amount of time and act like a large family, so we kind of feel like outsiders. Its no big deal though, we just do our own thing. The hostel is ...