Everything is peachy keen over here. Been too busy to email anyone, which is a good thing. So let me back up a bit and give you the full scoops.
-Pat and Bob and Marc got into Montezuma a day late but none the worse for wear. On their second day at the rental house, Marc and I abandoned them for the day to drive back to Nosara as a primo piece of land came up for sale at a great price. So we drove for 4 hours to get there, looked at the piece of property and put in an offer before heading back to Montezuma. We found out later on that we were being out bid and decided not to start in on a price war. I had been kinda waffling on the buying here idea as during my first 2 weeks here alone I had heard so many stories of second houses being pains in the butt. It was still a dream of Marc's and most probably a decent investment so no worries to buy a piece of property, and wait a long time to build on it. Then over the next 4 days, Marc heard stories from so many people with second houses in Costa Rica. Break ins, people stripping houses of windows, doors, electrical, having to spend half of your vacation fixing up your second home etc etc etc...and he came to the same conclusion that I had...buying and owning a house here is not for us. So, just like that, the plan changed and we were on vacation rather than looking for property! The new plan includes buying a campervan to tour New Zealand, then Australia, then sell and buy another van for South America.
So we spent 2 weeks in Montezuma, our rental house included daily visits from white faced and sometimes howler monkeys. We had 3 resident bats who kept the area fairly bug free, 3-4 agoutis who we fed daily, hummingbirds who fought over the feeder, bellbirds, trogans, mot mots etc etc etc. As you can imagine, Bob and Marc took a few photos.
Pat and Bob had a great time. we headed to the beach, Bob, Marc and I headed off for a snorkling day and we of course made many trips to the nearby water.
So now that we were no longer looking for property, Marc and I decided to ditch one of our weeks in Montezuma and head up to the mountainous Monteverde cloud forest area. Despite colds that both of us caught, we had an awesome 4 days taking night hikes, day hikes, a coffee tour and tours through reptile houses and frog houses. Very cool and so incredibly beautiful. Too bad for us that we had not planned on heading to this much cooler area and each only had one pair of pants which quickly got dirty and remained thus for our 4 days there. A little cool at times, and a sweater would have been appreciated amongst all of the beach wear that we had packed.
We are now in Playa Hermosa. Marc wanted to get some scuba diving in, and this is the place to do it. And, drumroll please, I went scuba diving for the first time in my life today. They have wonderful "discover scuba" programs here where you get an hour of in pool instruction then they chuck you into the ocean. Super cool. I got 2, 40 minute tank dives in, and went up to 40 feet deep. Marc the ever thoughtful decided to forgo his option to dive deeper, as he already has his Padi, to instead dive with me. It was so cool. We saw TONS of sting rays, eels, a lobster, tons of fish big and small, and on our second dive, SHARKS...which I was less fond of but Marc held my hand so I didn't freak out tooo much.
And there you have it. In a few days we will be heading to Carrillo a beach area down the coast and another rental home. There I plan to tackle Surfing. I'm quite excited.
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