Beach time in Playa Guiones
Playa Guiones is west of Nosara, Costa Rica on the west coast. The surf is amazing - it has about 2 miles of flat beach to walk, and goes out for hundreds of yards with [...]
Playa Guiones is west of Nosara, Costa Rica on the west coast. The surf is amazing - it has about 2 miles of flat beach to walk, and goes out for hundreds of yards with [...]
Why do dolphins jump? Scientists disagree, but theories are: to travel faster than they can in the water, to get a birds eye view of where the food is, to get rid of parasites, or [...]
JPG Jack & Karen Haggerty (one of Mike's flying buddies) have a lovely home in Potrero, in NW Costa Rica. Seems like a great way to spend at least part of retirement! Life expectancy is [...]
Fruit loops will never be the same. These toucans were magnificent. For a trip down memory lane: the original Fruit Loops commercial from 1975.
Things we would have walked by and never seen, had our guide not pointed them out and put the scope on them.... Dragonfly, boa constrictor (we were about a foot away), and a 4 inch [...]
Manuel Antonio is the crown jewel of Costa Rican National Parks, a tiny park with only about a one mile trail through the jungle. You hire a guide at the entrance, and they have telescopes [...]
The three toed sloth and the five toed sloth. Takes a sharp eye to tell which is which, look closely!
We were greeted in the morning by a flat tire in the parking lot. The attendant (with Spanglish and lots of sign language) helped us put on the spare and directed us to a gas [...]
Conchal Beach or Playa Conchal doesn't actually have sand. In one of Mother Nature's bizzare twists, the beach is made up of millions of seashells (conchas), partially broken but definitely not sand yet. Made for [...]
Leaf cutter ant facts: They have powerful jaws that vibrate up to 1000 times per second. They can lift over 20 times their body weight (that's the same as one human lifting a TON). They [...]
Costa Rica has plenty of volcanoes, including Rincon de la Vieja National Park, where there are natural bubbling mud holes called fumaroles. This sauna is naturally heated by extremely hot bubbling springs underneath. Rincon is [...]
We've tried to see Arenal on prior trips and had it completely obscured by clouds, but this time it was out in all its glory. It's somewhere in the top 10 most active volcanoes in [...]