Isla Tortuga

... , I did not take me long to figure out which excursions to do. The first thing on the list was to take a boat trip to Isla Tortuga to enjoy the pristine beaches and do some snorkeling. We left from the "port" here in Montezuma which is just the beach to ...

... bay, which our skilled driver pulled us throough without a bump. Great photo of Muriel just before we slipped through. Finally, to Tortuga and Muriel's last gut check before hitting the water. Many of you may already know of PM's great aversion to being ...

... at a little spot where I got to see a toucan up close and then headed off for an hour catamarn boat ride out to the island of Tortuga off the coast of the Nicoya peninsula. I met so many cool people and had one of the best days of my life. A new friend, ...

Notre troisieme journee passee a ete plus active. Nous avons pris un tour pour aller a l´ile de la tortue (Isla Tortuga) et faire du snorkel. Aucun de nous n´avait fait cela avant. Si j´ai bien compris le principe, cela consiste a se laisser flotter au ...

Today we schedule a trip out to Isla Tortuga (Turtle Island) to do some snorkeling.  There are several companies here that you can use, but Alex suggested using Monkey Tours because they give 10% of their profit to the local schools.  We thought ...

... made plans to meet with them the next day. Saturday, we all got up early and went to these beautiful, uninhabited islands, called Isla Tortuga. It was a fifty-minute boat ride there, and then once there, they took us to these beautiful reefs and we got ...

... all but still plenty of kayaks, hammocks and rocking chairs! Seeing as we had our fill of coconuts and hammocks at La Tortuga we wanted a bit more action so rented some horses and headed off to a waterfall...was fnatastic and included a 1hour walk to ...

... seine Höhe auf ca. 20 Meter. Am nächsten Morgen hiess es bereits wieder packen. Am Mittag ging es weiter sur Insel Isabela. Vorgängig besuchten wir aber noch die Tortuga Bay, wo wir die ersten Wasserschildkröten sahen und ..... ganz viele ...

... Lou was squished between Janet and I.  Needless to say, our driver slowed down a bit after that.  We drove by Isla Tortuga, which has really neat erosion patterns, tons of marine iguanas, blue footed boobies, and frigate birds. After being in ...