http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Guanacaste/Playas-del-Coco/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Central America Caribbean , Costa Rica , Guanacaste , Playas del Coco en-us Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:48:10 UTC Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:48:10 UTC So the IDC is finished and we can start to organize for the new shop. We are still waiting for the approval of my demands so lets hope it's soon. The boats are waiting for the paperwork......................pura vida things can't be done over night here in Costa RicaStaff members are droipping in on a regular base and in a few more days we should be complete. I did not have time to take pic http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Guanacaste/Playas-del-Coco/blog-348202.html Wow Yes this is my word for this month. What has happened Well let me just tell you about last week. We just bought a new dive company and Rich Coast Diving is expanding. So you know how that goes lawyers meetings and a lot of out of the office time. But I will focus on that in our next blog. This blog will just focus on our last week. We adopted a littel puppy sweet littel thing we http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Guanacaste/Playas-del-Coco/blog-333346.html Hi People Yes we have finally moved away from our little house. We found a great place with ocean view. It is up a hill and 2 stories high we are slowly getting used to running the stairs again man did we have soar calfs the first 2 days. haha.We are enjoying every moment waking up with the sound of the ocean and the monkeys howling and the birds trying to win from the monkeys. Our zoo i http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Guanacaste/Playas-del-Coco/blog-313217.html What's new Coco has a new supermarkt excited YEAH now we can buy almost everything except Dutch tea and peanut butter But eh one can't have it all right What else is new I have a new gate with a wall and a new floor all this to keep the water out Does it work you ask NO For the last 2 days we were flooded again UGGGGGGG I think we need to move.What else is new Devil one http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Guanacaste/Playas-del-Coco/blog-295314.html We had a little Curacao reunion this month Jean Paul came over to assist in the IDC as well as Gerben both intructors who used to help us out on Curacao once in a while then Tim Jill and their son James came over customers form Curacao and now we have Paul Tielemans here for 3 weeks former Dutch marinebloys boy and regular customer from Silent As you can see people are not forgetting u http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Guanacaste/Playas-del-Coco/blog-291263.html Saa er der lige lidt nyt igen Denne gang fra sol sommer og regn... Det stoerste er at Thyge er kommet og sluttet ringen. Det er fedt at vaere 3 og han bringer en del friskhed ind i crewet.. Der er lidt flere kolboetter og mere ninja end tidligereVi var i San Jose saa lidt tid som overhovedet muligt og tog nord paa til Playas del Coco Kokosstranden Der er nu ik saa meget kokosnoeddestrand o http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Guanacaste/Playas-del-Coco/blog-280538.html A week ago Georgia and I went up to Playa del Coco a little town right in the north western part of Costa Rica. I had been there about 6 years ago and this time I had athe perfect excuse to return...a PADI member forum. We headed off in our rental car armed with plenty of driving tunes and diet coke and of course our diving gear squeezed in the back...just in case.Afer 4 hours we arrived in C http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Guanacaste/Playas-del-Coco/blog-275851.html We received an email from one of our Neighbors from Holland that Kim is coming with a friend NO problem. Of course they needed to dive. First there was some anxiety but both passed their open water coures with Martin the Guru. Now it was time to see something else of Costa Rica.Sunday we took them to Tamarindo. Walked around and spend money on food drinks and souvenirs. Tuesday it was time t http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Guanacaste/Playas-del-Coco/blog-269774.html So the bus finally turned up and i assumed it was a direct bus how wrong i was it made loads of stops was not arir conditioned and i was jammed in to a seat and knees crushed at the front and back kneed aswell and sweating like a pig and later on some of the Ticos shut the windows it got to the stage the people standing up to and the pan american highway you would imagine is more than one lane http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Guanacaste/Playas-del-Coco/blog-242463.html Here is just a little update.Our tickets are booked and we are going to Malaysia on Feb 26th. We will stay 1 night in LA. Michelle will pick us up and we'll stay with her for teh night. Fun loads to tellWe'll arrive in Malaysia on the 29th and the hotel is booked Martin's CD course will start on the 4th so he has a few days to relax.After the course we planned a little vacation time and w http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Guanacaste/Playas-del-Coco/blog-242139.html First of all Merry xmas and an Awesome 2008 Of course this is the busy season so everyone is working hard One of our staff members got married last week and we were all invited to a Tico Canadian wedding..................................................Eerst iedereen fijne feestdagen iedereen is druk bezig want het is hoogseizoen hier. Een van onze staff is vorige week getrouwd en http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Guanacaste/Playas-del-Coco/blog-230077.html Buzy buzy buzy.........................We had about 50 divers What to do We rent a big boat and have a blast.............................................Druk druk druk................................We hadden 50 duikers Wat moet je dan Gewoon een grote boot huren en hard werkten met veel plezier http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Guanacaste/Playas-del-Coco/blog-221867.html A few days ago Martin went to San Jose to pick up Melissa I was in the office when somebody called me and said a monkey was hit by a car and they were told to call me. Sammy offered to pick it up after I explained she had to be careful and use a big towel. Once at the vet across the street why do people keep calling me even the vet asked me to help her out because she was scared We ex http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Guanacaste/Playas-del-Coco/blog-220191.html Water yes we had some rain and believe me 2 days ago I was not smiling crying came first. I must say I did not cry and things weren't so bad as you imagine. When you see these photos on tv people are always crying and I stayed totally calm.the pictures say enough I think.............this happened at 10 pm and we finally went to bed at 5am and back to work at 7am yawn. The next day we ha http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Guanacaste/Playas-del-Coco/blog-212398.html It's this time of the year again our boat went out for it's annual repairs. We were lucky and only had 3 days of rain. Hopefully we go back in tomorrow and everything will be back to normal on a nice clean boat.Het is weer de tijd van het jaar dat onze boot uit het water moest. Gelukkig hebben we maar 3 dagen regen gehad en kunnen we hopelijk morgen weer terug het water in en is alles weer nor http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Guanacaste/Playas-del-Coco/blog-207030.html We have a new pizote her mama died on the electricity cables and this littledushi has lost her tail. She is so sweet and really cuddely. Houdinie has found her way back into nature and I hope she found a group to socialize with.............................We hebben weer een nieuwe pizote haar moeder is dood aan de electricieits kabels gehangen en daarom heeft deze kleinedushi waarschijnli http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Guanacaste/Playas-del-Coco/blog-194784.html Well I guess all you guys heard about the earthquake that hit Peru There was a tsunami warning for the coast of Central America so also Playas del Coco. A tsunami was supposed to reach us at 21.40. I received a phone call around 8pm from the boat security guard. The whole beach was evacuating and he was scared. We decided to stay the night in and we were watching a good movie and eating di http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Guanacaste/Playas-del-Coco/blog-193848.html Apologies currently unable to restore. If you have a backup please edit this entry and savepublish.There is a small possibility that this entry will be restored only small. http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Guanacaste/Playas-del-Coco/blog-165201.html I finally left San Juan Del Sur after a week of loving it there. Made my way back to Costa Rica. I spent a day and nite in Liberia which is just a city and not all that worth it but it was a good day of rest. From there I bused to Playa Del Coco where I was hoping to meet a friend of a good friend of mine Valentina from Chile. I got a hotel and went straight to the beach which wasnt as nice http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Guanacaste/Playas-del-Coco/blog-159770.html Apologies currently unable to restore. If you have a backup please edit this entry and savepublish.There is a small possibility that this entry will be restored only small. http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Guanacaste/Playas-del-Coco/blog-150353.html Semana Santa comes with a halt in all bus traffic around the country for four full days. Where better to buckle down and stay for a few days than Playa del Coco courtesy of Brennan thanks again and thanks to Curt for getting us in touch. Playa del Coco is on the Nicoya Peninsula on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. We arrived a day earlier than we had mentioned to Brennan so we opted on a hot http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Guanacaste/Playas-del-Coco/blog-148987.html Ian is vandaag op het vliegtuig gestapt weer richting Nederland. We hebben echt topweken samen gehad maar nu is het bijna over met de pret. De 27e zijn we teruggekomen van onze 20 daagse trip door Costa Rica. Ik mocht natuurlijk gelijk weer aan de bak want m'n Divemaster is nog niet afgerond. Heb nog wat pittige examens voor de boeg over o.a. natuurkunde en uitrusting maken onderwatermap blabl http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Guanacaste/Playas-del-Coco/blog-124461.html Okidoki we finally bought our tickets to go to Holland for the dive show. We are leaving on the 3rd of February and coming back on the 14th. We have to spend a night in Miami unfortunatly that's the only way. Just before we are leaving Carlos Hiller decided to re paint our shop.Carlos is from Argentina and is a specialized artist for the Costa Rica under water life.He is also coming to the s http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Guanacaste/Playas-del-Coco/blog-120421.html Crossing the border into Costa Rica was a culture shock to say the least. The Latin American language indigenous villagers beautiful old colonial towns small local lsquotiendasrsquo shops locally owned hospedajes hotels and intriguing cultural differences were instantly replaced by the North American language sprawling rapidly growing towns and developments of condos only affordable t http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Guanacaste/Playas-del-Coco/blog-116316.html So the time has come and I have moved away from Costa Rica my home for the past 3 years. It was a hard decision to make and even harder to get all of my belongings packed and onto the airplane. Luckily for me goodbyes were not said because in one month I will be returning for one more week in Coco. Prolonging the inevitable I guess and who couldn't use one more week of diving surfing and http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Guanacaste/Playas-del-Coco/blog-114049.html It's starting to get pretty busy again the high season is here and the rain has stoppedWe have same new members in our crewand some new instructors are arriving at the end of the month. So we are totally prepared for the diving Remember there is a deive festival from May 1st till the 6th.This is just a little update what happend here the last month. Of course Martin had his Bday and he rec http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Guanacaste/Playas-del-Coco/blog-112146.html Ok where to start.... I guess the biggest change for me in 2006 was switching jobs. I still work at the same resort Ocotal Beach Resort but I have now taken on the responsibility of being the resorts environmental consultant. Pretty much my job is to assist the resort in making appropriate changes towards becoming more sustainable. It's a bit boring for me sitting in an office but I do get t http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Guanacaste/Playas-del-Coco/blog-106444.html Vandaag op mijn verjaardag regent het de hele dag. Ben ff bij de boot wezen kijken. De boot ligt sinds vorige week op het droge nou ja droog voor zijn jaarlijkse onderhoud. Op een dag als vandaag kan er weinig gebeuren de regen maakt het moeilijk om door te werken. beetje jammer maar that's lifeToday on my Bday it's raining. Went to take a look at our boat which is out of the water http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Guanacaste/Playas-del-Coco/blog-96949.html Zaterdag weer een normaal dagje in de shop sprak Pacho of Elgin kennen jullie hem nog me aan op MSN. Hij zou rsquos avonds naar zijn vriendin toe rijden daar blijven slapen en de volgende dag naar Coco komen. Hij wilde wat dingen weten van Martin en Brenda en hier in de buurt bij wat diveshops solliciteren. Maar Pura Vida daar beginnen we pas maandag mee dus kunnen we zondag wel same http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/Guanacaste/Playas-del-Coco/blog-93618.html