Tennis in CR

These are some shots of me playing tennis in CR. This was by far my best day playing tennis since 1943.

Puerto Viejo

These are a couple of pictures of my trip to Puerto Viejo September 12 - 14. Got back into San Jose at 9 or so on September 11 and got up in time to catch the 6 am bus from San Jose to Puerto Viejo. It is a

4 or so hour ride, mostly on paved roads. Puerto Viejo is interesting. It is a sort of hippy town. The beaches right in front of Puerto Viejo are not swimmable because there are rock formations. There is surfing about a kilometer down the beach. I caught some pretty cool waves. Ernesto, who was boogie boarding with me kept on complaining that I was catching whitewash because he could not catch a wave as he was too far out. He did finally catch a pretty cool wave (big enough to crest out in the boonies where he was stationed almost the whole time). I, however, caught more waves, more total feet, and rode the only wave all the way in.

I need to get rid of that har and those glasses. Oh well.

More whale pics

These are some bad boy pictures that needed to be posted. I just got them from a gal on the trip who had a humongous camera lens.

This is how close we were. Pretty cool.

Rain plus one

This is one more picture from the trip to Abanico - on the right.

The other two pictures are to show a little about the reality of life in CR. It is not sunny every day, as you may conclude from the other pictures alone. It rains almost every day at one point or another. Sometimes it is for a few hours. Sometimes all day.

El Abanico Work Day 2

Even though this is called "2" it was only one day. I just broke it up into two entries. These are some of the folks I work with. The second picture is with my new co-worker volunteer, Maureen, from Boston. And yes, that is a pet squirrel. Amazing.

El Abanico Work Day 1

This is a project that we worked on on August 12, 2008. It is a housing project in an area called San Carlos, about 2 hours from San Jose near the Arenal Volcano (we could see the volcano on the way there).

It was like 400 degrees. We worked for an hour and a half or so and were toast. We were shoveling and wheelbarrowing rocks and fill dirt for the floor of a house. Was a good day.

Whale Watching 2 - The Monkeys

These are pictures of some of the monkeys and a toucan we saw on the way to the hotel. The hotel was called Poor Man's Paradise. My roommates were Alberto (from Mexico in the middle) and Carlomagno (from CR on the right). Nice dudes.

The monkeys are white face capuchin monkeys. They were 6 feet away or so and there were around 20 or so of them in what appeared to be two groups. The toucan was a green/yellow beak dude. There were two in the tree.