Corcovado!!!

Crocodile in the Sierpe River

Shwelicans

Bearded Tourist

Happy May, and a late Mother's Day!!  We wanted to share some photos from our latest adventure.  Naomi and I took off for a few days down to Drake Bay and Corcovado National Park. We stayed a a beautiful little place on a hill just up from the beach. We had a deluxe tent cabin sent back from the future, raised up on a platform. Drake Bay is a boat mainly a boat in only community as the roads are pretty borderline. The boat ride starts in a little town called Sierpe and winds down the Sierpe river, through mangroves till you hit the Pacific.  From there you go south till you hit the bay.

Mangroves

After dropping off our stuff, we toke off for a hike along the south-coast trail (think West Coast trail but Tico style).  You hike right along the water, past so many hidden beach and through awesome jungle.  The next morning we woke up at 5 for a guided tour of Corcovado National Park, which is an hour away by boat. Amazing animal party!!!!  We went on a 5 hour walk through the forest and saw........four kinds of monkeys, a tapir, a bunch of birds, a sloth, an aguti, some bugs and things, and some amazing trees and forest! 

Our Uber tent for 4 days

We had to keep reminding ourselves that we were in the wild because there were so many animals it felt like a zoo. After getting back to the tent we decided to take the kayaks out for a paddle down the coast and up the Agujitas river. The sea was a little rough with a few swells but once we got to the river it was some tranquil paddling! (It was sort of a Lincoln adventure, for those who know about Naomi's dad -kinda sketchy...but really fun!) The next day we went on a snorkeling trip to Cano Island and on the way there we spotted some spotted dolphins having breakfast! Snorkeling was amazing, lots of bright tropical fish swimming around. We also saw a White Tipped Reef Shark and a Hawksbill Sea Turtle!!!! Turt!!!!!  Naomi conquered her looking underwater through goggles phobia, too.  We beached on Cano for a deluxe lunch laid out by our tour guide Vincent. Then it was back to the mainland!!

Agujitas River 

The following day we had to pack up and head home, which was the usual bus riding epic, other than when the bus got stopped by some cops! The cops came on and were looking at everybody and ended up stopping right in front of us and asking these two guys some questions. I guess they didn't answer them right because next thing we knew they were taking them off the bus and cuffing them!!!! After this happened I remembered that one of the guys had changed his shirt a little while earlier, like he was trying to change the way he looked or something.  I think they were illegal aliens from Nicaragua.

We hope you like the photos!  Pura vida!!!

Scarlet Macaws

the Magnificent Frigatebird

Spotted Dolphin

Squirrel Monkey

Baird's Tapir

Sunset in Drake Bay