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| Playa Arco |
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| Fruit from the farm |
Happy Summer everyone! We are into the wet season here, although we still get plenty of sun and only a few hours of rain most days. We've decided we like the rainy season, there's nothing like a nice downpour after a hot morning!
Like Isaac said, we have been busy, and enjoying every bit of it!
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| Homemade bbq - thanks Pancho! |
The dogs, well they are never ending entertainment. Koda got a nasty gauge in his front leg, and ended up having to get put to sleep so the vet could roughen up the wound and stitch it shut. He fought off the anesthetic like a trooper, and also tried to wake up half way through (which led to his fourth injection!). His stitches fell out after a couple of days (oops), and we tried to make him wear a long sock to keep it clean - ha!. It's finally just healed up, so all is well! Also, we brought home a little puppy that had been dropped off on the property in a sac. She was SO sweet, a huge attention hog (Koda was NOT a fan), and although a bit scraggly, she really grew on us. We had her fixed by a vet in Palmares, and got her some anti-parasite, and flea meds. And luckily, Kataryn, a girl who lives just down the road was happy to adopt her, so we're really happy because we REALLY like Kataryn, and we really loved the perita, so it was happy ending!
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| Meet Sacita |
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| Howlers |
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| White-faced monkey on the farm |
Our friends Mike and Michelle are visiting us from Victoria. It's been so fun to show them the farm, and have some company! The other day on the way down to the river, Isaac spotted a group of white-faced monkeys in the forest across the road. It was SO cool! Monkeys do occasionally pass through the jungle because of the biological corridor that runs through the area, but we were really lucky to see them so close, and in our forest! The four of us, plus Koda, took a beach trip to Playa Arco yesterday, which was awesome - we had a family of howler monkeys hanging out right above the truck when we were getting ready to leave. I think M & M might have good monkey luck.
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| Baby tomatoes |
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| Growing! |
What else...well our garden is exploding. I spotted the first baby tomatoes today, and our squash plant is also fruiting! We bought a ton of cilantro, parsley, and lettuce starters from a guy in San Francisco and planted them in the new box. Yum!! Another neighbour raises pigs, and one of her momma pigs just had 17 babies. We went for a peek a couple of days ago. There are pink ones and brown ones, I really want a brown one! Pigs are actually very smart, and very clean. I'm not sure what her plans are for all of those babies (well there's about 12 now, because the mom accidentally sat on a few), but oh boy would I love to just have one for a little bit.
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| How could you not want it? |
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| The boys digging |
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| Koda's camoflauge |
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| Mike and Michelle at Playa Ballena |
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| River walk |
We took a trip up the river to check out the waterfall as well. It has changed SO much since we were there last. The pool is much deeper, and wider, and it was deep enough to jump off!! It's high, but not high enough to give you that icky stomach feeling, so it was really fun.
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| Babies |
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| Pep talk! |
Our next adventure is Mt. Chirripo! The four of us are leaving EARLY Monday to conquer the 3,820m (12,00ft) mountain. We'll hike to the base lodge on Monday (12km), and then spend two nights up there while we explore the area, and the summit. We scored some awesome $2 fleeces at the Ropa Americana in town, so hopefully we won't freeze because temps at night can go below freezing. Isaac did the hike with two of his friends a few years ago, and they survived off 4 sandwiches each, some cookies, and bananas. Michelle and I are have decided that food is key, so we'll be expanding the menu a few items. It's going to be muddy, but it's going to be great!!
We'll update again once we are back, and can walk! Much love, xoxo
Happy Summer everyone! We are into the wet season here, although we still get plenty of sun and only a few hours of rain most days. We've decided we like the rainy season, there's nothing like a nice downpour after a hot morning!
Whoot!!! Its been awhile since we've posted a blog and its not because we haven't been doing anything!!! We took a trip to San Jose to send one of our old dogs up to Canada to live with my parents and when we were there we bumped into our old friends Mike and Michelle! Ohh joy! So we headed off to the Caribbean coast for some fun in the sun......we stayed in our own little cabin just outside of town and it was beautiful! we spent the first day swimming in the ocean on Playa Negra, an amazing black sand beach.
The next day we went for a stroll in the national park and saw some monkeys and bugs and crabs and a couple of sloths! Right at the end of the hike there is a guy with little restaurant so we stopped for some amazing food and free use of his pool! AMAZING....every hike should have a pool at the end of it! The next day we went over to the sloth sanctuary where they have been rescuing injured and orphaned sloths for years. We had a little tour and got to see some sloths up close and some baby sloths! Weirdest animals ever!
The drive home the next day was over three different mountains and only took all day, no big deal.We were about 20 minutes away from San Isidro when we came around the corner to a semi truck hanging over the side of the mountain! The tow trucks were hard at work pulling him back onto the road and we were delayed another hour and a half or so......just what we needed after about 6 hours of driving! Finally we made it home and crashed......HARD.
