Casitas Eclipse Manuel Antonio National Park

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After dropping Bev off at the airport we headed straight out of town. Of course this took us a good hour due to traffic and the inability to get proper directions! The map I we had purchased at a hotel the day when we came into the country was supposedly up-to-date, but so far I had counted around 10 mistakes. The San Jose portion was no different. By the time we got out of the city it was around 3 PM so we only had a few hours of daylight left and we still had to go ...

Just a quick blog to keep you up to date<br>Had to change plans as there was no space at Sirena Ranger Station. Margarita was able to organise alternative route into Corcovado<br>Got Marvi bus to Sierpe. Stayed in good cabinas and had excellent meal in their restaurant<br>

... them for a minute and purchased their groceries for them. We ate our ice cream in the car on the way back to the hotel. We got some ice cream for Oscar as well.<br><br>We were going to watch a movie when we got back to the hotel, but our DVD player in our room was not workings. So, we watched the movie A Street Car Named Desire. Most of us didn&#8217;t make it to the end of the movie before we fell asleep. <br><br>Day 11 &#8211; Tuesday, July 7 ...

This morning we met our guide, Juan Brenes, at the entrance to Manuel Antonio National Park. Luckily he found us as we were parking and some young guy was trying to scam us out of 2,000 colones (about $4) to park. He claimed it was "mandatory". Evidently it's not and Juan showed Doug a place to park for free. You can imagine how happy that made Bart! <br><br>The guides at the park have to attend ...

... because I have never seen a pineapple still growing ha. There are thses Howler Monkeys that you can randomlly hear, OOOO OOOOoooo OOOoooo, that are really kidna creepy sounding. almost liek teh sound is a scary movie. crazy moths and butterfly just randomly fly by. Then on top of it all theres the sounds of so many different birds and insects. But just chilling in a hammock for hours each day and watchign passiont fruit fall off the ...

... to be able to take our time and pick and choose a good one. It wasn't to be. So I'll be raiding Google Images for a decent picture... Our guide Santos was very interesting and talked to us about all sorts of things, including the fascinating leaf cutter ants which we saw merrily going about their business. Unfortunately the evening's "see the lava flowing!" bit didn't exactly work out so we cut it short and headed to the Baldi hot springs for a night-time ...

Well, after spendind too much time in San jose, we headed back to Manuel Antonio for a day in the park. We had lots of raccoons trying to steal our bags on the beach and had to chase them away with sticks! We swan in pool that turned mine and Missy's hair bright green...then the next day on to.....

... today and I really haven´t accomplished much of anything today. I´ll be going into town after to buy my bus ticket back to San Jose where I have to meet my group on Sat afternoon, I´m not really excited about going back there but at least I´m traveling there with one of the guys I´ve met at the hostal so things should be better there this time around. That´s about it for now. I tried to put up pictures but the internet is bad here so it will have to wait until another time. Cheers

... surfing grabs hold of your soul. But I´m not sure beach by day and cocktail waitress by night would satisfy me. Maybe in some short term vacation kind of way. But after a few months, I suspect a sense of purposelessness would set in. A summer slips by, I am thinking more and more about the upcoming school year. I am both hopeful and fearful about working with the naughty kids. But, despite the trepidation, I suspect I need it looming ...