The hostel I am staying in has free Internet and as I am in the highlands of Costa Rica waiting for my ATVing tour to start I figured I would put a little time into the blog.
After Leon the boys and I headed to Granada for 3 days. Where a friend of theirs joined us. Her name is Carolyn and she too is Irish. The town was good fun and had a lovely colonial feeling.
Afterwards it was beach time and we headed off to San Juan Del Sur in southern Nicaragua.
We spent the first day on the town´s beach but the waves there were just barely suitable for boogie boarding so we piled onto the hostels 4 wheel drive truck heading off to the big surf beaches. The waves were spectacular! Nice even breaks with clear gaps between them so that you can easily pick out the waves you want.
It was in watching these waves that I saw possibly the most exciting sight of my trip. I was body boarding as one of the lads had wanted a go on my board and as I was watching for my wave to come I saw a large turtle (about 2/3 of a meter across) playing in the wave. He too was surfing the face of the 3 meter wave. It was so amazing that I didn´t pay enough attention to what I was doing and got tossed around so badly that I had reach down quickly to recover my shorts that the wave had mostly off.
The next morning we were up early to continue our travels. It was another long day of travelling, 60 minute taxi ride, 45 minutes at the border, 3 hour bus ride, and then 2.5 hours of another bus that was so full that all the boys and I had to stand. All of which served to deliver us in Monte Verde, Costa Rica. (It is in the North East, part of a massive wildlife reserve.)
Later this afternoon we are off to do a bit of ATV riding and then up tomorrow morning to go ziplining (flying from stands to stands anywhere from 25 to 55 meters over the forest canopy)
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