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  Santa Teresa, Costa Rica
Friday, March 28, 2008

The last post was going to be the last but since i've now left the Caribbean side and bombed over to the pacific i thought i'd do one more update.  Im now in a very cool little place called Santa Teresa which is in the top left hand side area of Costa Rica and getting a nice swell at the moment.  I just had the best surf EVER this morning, so good in fact that i couldn't get out of the water, even when i was physically exhausted. I ended up in there for 4 hours!  Gotta make the most of it since ive only got 3 or 4 days left.

My God.  Going back to England soon!  It seems like it's not going to happen, even at this late stage.

But anyway. The trip over here was pretty long. Left Viejo at 7.30 pm and got to San Jose at midday, the dodgey taxi drivers swamped me so i picked one at random that looked fairly respectable. I'd only just woken up on the bus and was dazed as hell so ended up settling on a price that was about 1000 collones to much.  Thats a english quid. Not much to worry about.  As we're in the car on the way to the next bus station so i can get the connecting bus to the pacific side he starts telling me that the bus leaves at 3.30pm and theres no way it will make it as the bus has to go on a boat to cross over and according to taxi driver the boat only leaves at 10pm, so i'll have to stay over night.  Bullshit!  Luckily i took  a gamble and ignored him, i got to the station, the bus left at 2.30 and we all crossed over on the ferry in happy spirits will nice cold imperial beers in our hands.  Never listen to taxi drivers, i found out they just want to sell you and over priced stay in one of their buddies hotels.  The evil swine.

The first 2 mornings here have been amazing.  In a way i wish i'd headed over here a little earlier, the surf is so much better!  Not as heavy as the reef at salsa brava but nice and chunky all the same, and very glassy.  Also the sunsets are stunning and its great to be back on the west coast so i can float out and watch the sun go down as im surfing in water thats almost to hot sometimes.  Not that i'd change that for anything but yesterday evening i was burning up out there and the water was to hot to cool me down!  I like it!  I stayed in till i was the last one and had to walk the little jungle path back to the hostel in the dark and i could hear all these scuttling creatures to my right and left bolting out of my way, probably crabs or lizards i thought but then something ran over my foot and my mind started filling in the images of cute lizards with those of great big spiders.  Pretty freaky but also very funny!

Not much else to tell really.   Woke up this morning and though my bike had been nicked but it turned out that someone had borrowed it to go look for their passport as their whole dorm room had been robbed.... while 4 people were a sleep in it!  Turns out the robbers came in and actually carried out the whole stack of safes in the corner which had a few people most valuable things in it.  Quite shocking really.  This one poor chap sliced open his foot the other day so he cant surf for his last week and now lost all his cards and passport etc.  Evil!

Well im going to head off now, last days so i've got to make the most of it all! 

Bye for now

Karl

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