The Nosara Boomerang

I just left this place a month and a half ago, and yet here we are again.

We headed to Carrillo after our Scuba adventures in Playa Hermosa. Found our way to the house that we had rented for the last 2.5 weeks of the trip only to discover that it was located in the middle of 3 other houses being built. Hammers hammering and saws sawing 6 days a week from 6 am until 5 pm. We packed our stuff back up, got a refund of our deposit for the house and headed back up the road to Nosara. The lovely lady Alexa whose hotel I had stayed at previously booked us in to a studio apartment next door and here we are. We'll be in Nosara for 10 days before heading back to Samara where we found a condo rental with no construction around it.

We spent a 3 hour boat tour on the Rio Nosara. This is a brackish river that leads out into the ocean and is flooded with salt water at every high tide. Mangroves and other large trees protect the banks and the area is a protected reserve. We got to see so many birds, buckets of herons, parrots, hawks, mot mots and the surrounds were beautiful. We even got to see a basalic lizard run across the water (thus their nick names, Jesus Christ lizzards) The boat had a little electric motor so the animals were not disturbed at all. Marc got some great shots.

We also spent a morning walking through the Lagarta lodge's wild life refuge. We got to witness the mating dance of the long tailed manaquin. So fun. These birds are great. The males make friends for life with other males, usually in groups of 2 or 3. When mating season starts, they call the ladies. When a lady shows up, the buddies start dancing for her. She watches them carefully to see who has the best technique and the brightest colours before deciding on a mate. She chooses, they head off the the back seat of a car for a few minutes, then the chosen one returns to his buddies to continue their guy talk. Sometimes animals are so much like humans it amazes me.

Then as we continued on we saw a tree rustling. Our guide thought it must be monkeys so looked up, just as Marc looked down and saw a spotted cat run headfirst down the trunk and away. It was a Marguay. A wild cat a little bigger than a house cat. A very rare sighting. Of course I was looking for the monkeys so saw none of it. Sigh.

I rented a body board here for the week and Marc has rented a Surf Board. A body board is the small child/nanna version of a surf board so is just my speed. Marc heads out past the breaks to catch the waves and I head just after the breaks to catch the white wash. I get ride after ride after ride while Marc paddles and paddles and sits and sits waiting to catch a wave. I love that for once I feel that my lack of skill and coordination is resulting in more fun for me!

We'll be here for a few more days before heading back to Samara for our last week!

Hope that all is well in Manitoba!
Erin