Merry Christmas from Playa Grande
Trip Start
Dec 21, 2008
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Trip End
Jan 02, 2009
Montezuma,
Province of Puntarenas,
Costa Rica
Thursday, December 25, 2008
We're off to the beach. :-)
We actually had some rain overnight. Pretty cool actually and seeing that we're in a rainforest, pretty much expected. We've also had some nocturnal visitors to our deck and we haven't been leaving food out either. This morning we had breakfast at Organico, an organic restaurant. The food here is amazing and it's got a very laidback vibe to it. In fact, they even have a "chill room" where you can sit on pillows, have a freshly made fruit shake, and surf the Web. HIGHLY RECCOMENDED!!
Organica
Ok, so I know I said earlier that it was a difficult trip to Playa Grande and you should stick to the trail. Well, we went to Playa Grande and again we didn't stick to the trail and again we regretted it. So much so that future beach trips will not include Playa Grande. On the up side the waves were better than last time and we saw more Rays.
Horseback riding on Playa Grande
There is the opportunity to go on horseback riding tours and one of those tours takes you down Playa Grande. All the beaches that we have been to so far have been very clean. In fact, there are signs up about protecting the beach and not leaving trash on the beach. However, because of the current, the plastic that gets left across the Gulf and probably other parts of the world end up in huge piles at the high tide mark, it really is a sad sight. Glass is dangerous and people can step on it, but sea glass can be collected and in the end, glass ends up going back to its original state...sand; plastic goes on forever:
Where our plastic ends up
Since it's Christmas evening we headed downtown to check out the nightlife. Basically around 10:00 one bar raises the music level and the people move out into the street. It's very "tranquilo" and very much what you would expect from a surfer's town. As usual, there were people getting drunk, but pretty much everyone has a laissez faire attitude that no one really cares what you do. Pretty refreshing, actually.
The ATM is still down.
