Golfo Dulce Lodge Golfito

... door again rushing down to the beach to see if we could spot any bull sharks or crocodiles as it was the time of day when the river was going to reach high tide. Unfortunately we never saw any bull sharks, but we did see some crocs only about 10 meters from where we were standing. The unsettling thing about crocs are that they are deceptively quick. One minute they are right there in front of you, the next minute when you look they are gone. I nervously edged a bit closer to the ...

OK here is the low down on three crazy weeks of adventure!! Three weeks ago I decided to hike around corcovado, but i didnt want to pay the eight bucks to get in so i found a back way into the park. Tom, the owner of the gardens i was working at knows a lady named Pam that lives in Dos brasos, which is near the mountain park of the park and i could camp there and hike in everyday. So iset out for the 11 mile hike to her house. I ended up hitching two ...

... more and more remote - fewer and fewer towns, houses and farms, more heavily wooded countryside; and the nicely asphalted road becomes little more than a dirt track! Far from being the city acting as the hub of the far south of Costa Rica, that I expected, Puerto Jiménez is nothing more than a large dusty village! Still, it has the ...

... and the airport, through a residential area to the jungle road that connects Golfito to Villa Briceño (Km 37) and the InterAmericana. It's a rough road, but an amazing place to catch some views. From Golfito it heads straight up, but then levels out and winds around through pastures and creeks. Very few humans are seen on this road, but lots of birds, Morpho butterflies and monkeys. We saw Capuchin and Squirrel ...

... cry of pain. Almost paralyzing pain if you can imagine. Fortunately I am still alive and my guy is recovering slowly. That tick in particular, well, the last moments of its life were tortuous to say the least. ....... For those who may want to know specifics and who may plan to do the journey yourself, we were dropped off at Carate, catching a covered pickup from PLopez around 530 or so in the morning. You hiked 3.5 km to La Leona ranger station (at the park boundary) and then ...

... I wish we could have gotten more done on the project but we managed to do some solid work. The people here are so amazing and so kind. They may not have all the possessions and money that we have but they are rich in life and always positive. I got to hang out with some amazing folks and get a sense of the Costa Rican life. I can´t wait to come back. But now it´s time to surf.

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... thing in the morning and jumped on tour bus to go white water rafting. that was awesome!! it was just the four of us in a boat with 2 guides, and it was mostly really chill with not much to do but look at the scenery but every 5 or 10 minutes we would have to paddle really hard and get down some fairly big rapids. it was soo much fun, but i think next time i want even bigger rapids. after our tour, we were driven to the carribean side of costa rica, to ...

... with rocky reef for snorkeling, where I saw all sorts of cool fish and big mollusks. This was the site of the unfortunate shell FLP. At each site we do Faculty Led Projects, which allow us to explore the region we are in with the guidance of someone who knows the system. Our guide certainly knows the system, but she didn't care to follow the format that the projects are required to follow, leaving us to bridge the gap between her non-hypothesis ...

... ne prav globoka - ampak dovolj da sem si rekla --- ok... Pol sva prsli v Dominical, ki je popular surf spot, amapak zdej ni valov :) tko da sva odjadrali naprej proti jugu in proti Peninsuli de Osa. V koncni fazi sva pristali v Golfitu, ker je blo ze pozno in se nama ni vec dal vozit - predvsem mene je ze vse bolelo od neudobnega sedeza. Zdej greva naprej ... ! LP