Hola Chicos After a grewling day of travelling via boat, a bus, another bus and another bus we have finally reach Costa Rica! It is stunning here! We drove on buses for about 9hours on tuesdays and the scenery was incredible! the drive was a little scary with huge cliff edges with no barriers and a slightly insane bus driver going much faster than he sould be! But we got here in once piece and are current staying in Quespos which is on the central pacific coast. We went to the national park in Manuel Antonio today which was beautiful, we [View Full Entry]

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About 6 weeks ago I signed our shop up for a bowling competetion, only 1 of us had bowled before....so we were a little apprehensive about the ability of Los Tiburones, our team name. I was only vaguely aware that there was a bowling alley in Quepos! But Quepos has Bobby D's, a proud relic of the Palm Oil Production company Palma Tica, that is being kept alive by Bobby, an avid bowler. Bobby D's has 2 lanes, and pin boys to place your pins up rather than a machine and Bobby himself, who writes down you score and gives free [View Full Entry]

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Well I´m gone again, on another adventure. This time I´m travelling for 16 weeks Central and South America. Saturday I flew to San Jose, Costa Rica Spent a couple days visiting with friend of mine, Krista and her roommate Ashley. They have been down here since January, teaching English.Sunday we went visited Pose Volcano. Monday I jumped a bus to the pacific coast to a town called Quepos, near Manuel Antonio National Park.I spent the last 3 days here Great spot to spend a couple of days. Amazing weather, pristine beaches, beautiful sunsets and lots of stuff to do. Tuesday I [View Full Entry]

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Kate - Our journey to Quepos was....hurray... not too long and only took around 2 hours. When we arrived however it was absolutely tipping it down with rain which we later learnt it did everyday in the afternoon in Quepos. It is actually quite refreshing since the mornings are so hot, and also you dont feel bad about lazing around the hostel playing cards, reading our books in the afternoon. Quepos is a small town along the coast from Jaco and it really nice. We chose to stay in a Backpackers after our somewhat extravganze in Playa Hermosa and we picked [View Full Entry]

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Hellooooo. From the jungle we got on a bus at 6 am and went back to Puerto Jiminez to wait for the water taxi for 5 hours and then from Golfito on a bus 3 seperate times until we finally arrived in Uvita in the dark. We got a room at a cool little hostel and met our roomate from North Carolina who later travelled further with us. Uvita was a town with spread apart different sections and you had to pay $6 to enter the beach so the next morning we jumped on the bus and went a bit further [View Full Entry]

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Hey and welcome all to Oceans first official blog! I figured i would start the new season and new year with a bang and actually keep everyone up to date with whats going on down here in Manuel Antonio/ Quepos. Im part of a a relatively young dive center down here and living my everyday sometimes adventurous, sometimes random, life working as a dive instructor and helping run the center. My job is full of incredible buzzes and drops so i thought i would enlighten whoever wants to know on some of them. This year has already opened with beautiful sun [View Full Entry]

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Thanks to the monkey visit on Tuesday which started at 5.30am and lasted till about 7am, Tuesday was a looong day. We checked out of the hotel at 8.30 since the power had been shut off at 8am so there was no point in hanging around and we drove to a local spice farm called Villa Vanilla. With not knowing what to expect, combined with getting a personal tour from the owner of the farm we had an amazing time. Henry was originally from Chicago, who had come to CR 30 years ago with the Peace Corp and stayed. About 21 [View Full Entry]

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Well unfortuantely we never got to Zip line today - we got to the site, paid and THEN they brought up a concern wiht the harnesses and Jay and would they fit him properly, so we pretty much wasted a day to find out they did not have the right harness for him and it would of been a risk for him to be in a suspension harness with not a lot of room for slipping.....we were pretty pissed since I had contacted the company "Canopy Titi" asked about any restrictions and was told since the cables are designed to hold [View Full Entry]

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So last night I was on our balcony and i was like ho-hum guess no monkeys for me, I was relaly hoping I would get one on our balcony. Even last night both Jay and I woke up once each in the middle of the night to peak on a banan we had left out. Then at about 5.30 I wa sup and couldn't sleep anymore and I looked outside and there was an amazing sunrise so I opened the door and there it was a monkey in the tree across from us, it was a mono titi, an andangered monkey [View Full Entry]

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A monkey was on our balcony today……and WE WERE NOT HERE! How do I know? Because I left a banana on the ledge and for the two hours that we went out for lunch we came back and found a banana peel on the floor - how do you like that, eat and leave trash behind! Oh well I am hopeful that the new banana I put out will secure me an up close encounter with a monkey. We did go to Manuel Antonio Park today, we hired a tour guide who without we would never of spotted three different varieties [View Full Entry]

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