Esencia Hotel Mal Pais

... for Playa Santa Teresa right next to Mal Pais.
The road was good for a lot of the way and then at about 10pm we hit the ****** dirt road.
After stopping several times to ask for directions we arrived at a river at about midnight and the road just appeared to stop right there, there was a house about 1km back though so we went and asked them and they said that we where on the road we just had to drive through the river.
we headed back and looked around ...

... The waves were pretty big, and there were lots of surfers out riding the waves. Brad the owner saw us on the beach and told us the waves were so big because there was a big swell coming in and the waves would be big for the next few days.

The water was so nice and warm. We all had a great time playing in the water. We saw a group of people headed for surfing lessons while we were out. After we had been on the beach about an hour, a stray ...

... der nykoebte, haandrullede nicaraguanske cigare. vi fandt dem paa en lille biks, hvor ejeren selv rullede dem, 400 om dagen for at vaere helt praecis. efter en hviledag tog vi til isla de ometepe, hvor vi kaempede, og vi mener kaempede, os vej op af en vulkan. 1300 meter over havets overflade, og en samlet gaatur paa 14 km, satte sit praeg paa vores tilstande. med en guide som hellere ville loebe end gaa op, og ikke var saa meget for at tegne og fortaelle ...

... Alanna Lana moment. Not until I showed him the bag in the morning and the nibble size bites in the crisps did he believe me. We left the opened bag out on the table and what do you know the birds finished it off during the day. Fortunately it was a sunny day with no sign of rain as we set off for Tortuga Island. The highlight of the day was seeing a humpback whale and it's baby when they both breached the water (we were not't quick ...

... fun. So we switch it up to some bottom jigging just for fun and get a couple more and all of a sudden one of the brothers is getting all excited over what he's got and we all reel in our lines so he can pursue this. We are all wondering what's up when 50m away we see this huge sailfish jump up out of the water full of fight and we're like hoooooooooly f!!! Our guide has caught a sailfish with a dinky little rod and he's friggen going for it. So ...

... Rica! By chance we stumbled across a great hostel, it looks new and is full of hammocks everywhere, what we´ve been looking for for ages! There's a pool table on our veranda, terraces to sit on, a huge kitchen and make your own pancakes and full of chilled surfers! Thursday - its time to surf! With my new boardies at the ready - well we have to look the part even if our surfing isn't so good. We hire a couple of boards for the day ...

Ended up having 2 surf lessons booked. Alex was at 11.30am with Surf Camp and he was going to demonstrate how it was done and having learned from the master, I was to go later @ 3pm. Alex's approach to surfing was somewhat interesting as it didn't seem to involve standing up on the board Also the instructor had a novel approach, which was to bob around and occasionally wave to his students. The other 2 students also didn't seem to be able to get up either. At this point ...

... 10$ a night and they had pancakes included, but I had to make them myself. The people were mostly from Canada and "The Land Down Unda." The great thing was that most of them were learning to surf, it felt good to be able to surf so well on the intermediate waves down there, because the waves I surf are much harder to catch. I spent most of the weekend in the water and watched movies and played rummy a bunch in the middle of the day, I went to an Assemblies of ...

... much thought and getting advice from others, we think that the rest of our trip is laid out...all thats left to do now is get the OK from Casey and we will be on our way. Leaving here in the morning to head to Quepos to meet up with Clark again for a few days. It should be quite a haul to get there, but nothing that we can't handle. This site has been viewed 275 times, thats very impressive. Thanks to everyone who has looked and wrote to us.

... a little kitchen, and a little convection oven, and an even smaller coffee maker. I though ohhhh cute.... Then he opened the back door to my full patio with dining room table, chairs and rocker, facing the ocean. A magnificent view, minus a few power lines. I am literal 25 seconds from the water. I went to bed last night by the sounds of the waves hitting the sand. I awoke this morning ...