Bats in the belfry

I spent one week in the beachside town of Nosara. There I stayed at a hotel and made friends with the lovely hotelress named Alexa. I spent the week there snooping around town, driving around with real estate agents looking at property, pondering buying property in Costa Rica, heading to the beach, the farmers market and the turtle beach where Olive Ridley turtles were nesting. Very cool. I was in town with no car but the lovely Alexa dragged me out with her whenever she headed out for groceries, to watch a band play etc etc.

So after much pondering over property I am now in Montezuma, on the southern end of the Nicoya Peninsula. I'll quit pondering for a few weeks and actually have a bit of a vacation, one week by myself, and then Marc and his folks arrive so we'll have a week of vacation together!

The 3 bedroom house that we rented here in Montezuma is cool to say the least. 2 Square 2 story buildings connected by decks that link the 2, and the whole thing is topped off with an observation deck at level 3. When the howler monkeys are roaring in the mornings it's good fun to climb up to the top with a cup of coffee to watch them at tree top level.

The yard that the house is in is filled with tropical plants and the flowers are so fragrant it seems like someone must be spraying some sort of tropical perfume everywhere, but no, it's just the flowers. There are humming birds who are zooming around fighting for the feeder, and big guiney pig type things who come looking for food every morning. I have already been warned that the white faced monkeys are somewhat cheeky and will steal a banana out of your hand if you are not careful. I've seen lots of fruit bats eating at the bunch of bananas outside, and lots of regular bats go flapping around the decks as night, eating all of the mosquitos that I attract.

I'll be spending the next week or so just toodling around the area. I want to take a surfing lesson and do that hike to the waterfalls that everyone does around here. I'm saving the bigger things, like kayak trips, scuba lessons and snorkling for when Marc and company get here.

Hope that everyone is keeping nice and toasty warm back home. It's all I can do to stay a little cool over here.

Cheers
Erin