I'm sitting here, by the pool at 6:30 am looking at the jungle , waiting for something to pass by. yesterday a huge iguana walked here, looking at the jacuzzi.
the day before yesterday we left monte verde and drove down the bad roads towards manual antonio. the 1st part was a descent from the high mountains with a glorious mountain and pacific ocean views. but most of the way was on a lovely coastal road. we had a lunch stop of the usual and saw a big iguana (not as big as the one we saw here) and alla got lucky and was given 4 mangos from an orchard workers. those are mangos that fell to the ground, he just handed her a bunch of them. he must like curls.
we stopped on a bridge over a river where crocodiles lay on the bank and some in the water. i counted almost 40 of them, just waiting for a tourist to fall. on the bank there were some iguanas and birds. one iguana charged at a bird and almost got it. the birds walks so close to the crocks, crazy birds.
manual Antonio is much warmer then the other places here. we came in before check in time, so we placed our begs on the side and headed for the ocean. wow, the water is so nice and warm, with fun big waves and the shore is sandy and pristine, with the jungle all around, and the hotels do not stand out in the sky line. this beach as some islands near by. we splashed for an hour, then headed back to find that most activities begin at 2 pm and now i was shortly after, so we planned our next few days, got an ice cream cone and discovered that most places here are tourist places, more expensive and not as good in general. why do they think i want a burger in costa rica?
in the evening, we hopped on the bus and went to the very fancy gaya hotel. were a car took us from the gate to the hotel!!! , this is not were we stayed. but they have a spa here and Alla enjoyed a massage and facial , while i read in the lobby. after that we enjoyed a yummy desert/ the restaurant chef went out to ask us how we like the lava case. fancy place.
after a luxurious massage and check restaurant, the obvious next step is to take the bus home. but the bus didn't come, so we started walking and hitched with a french guy that kept complaining of a corrupt police force.
yesterday we began we a kayak tour in the mangroves, at damas estuary. right at the beginning we spotted a boa constrictor on a bush. we saw more iguanas' crabs, a sloth, several herons, ibises, bats, sand pipers, fly catchers, king fishers, grackles, butterflies, a possum and all four kinds of mangroves (papaya, mango, guanabana and pineapple). kidding. its white, black and i forget the other 2 kinds.its was a relaxed kayak tour, we went on various channels in the estuary and very narrow one where we had to use our hands to traverse the mangroves and was probably a hundred crabs on the many mangrove roots.
we napped for a while, had an over priced lunch an headed for a surf lesson. we did some ground practicing, then headed for very large waves. for the big waves which came in threes. we swam below and let them pass, wait for some baby waves, then tried to surf them. it took lots of tries just to get on the thing. many just to lay there on the board without falling off, but finally we did it, we managed to stay on the wave and head to shore. what an awesome feeling. but after every success attempts came several failure, we get up too late, to early, to close to the edge, to close to the other edge. it has to be right or you simply don't move. but most of the time passed battling the huge waves. the waves got higher and higher and we cut the lesson short, since there were no baby waves. we will continue today in the after noon. but hell ya, we were surfing.
a day of fun awaits us....
pura vida from Manual Antonio park
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