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| Empty A frames! |
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| Came to Don Jons in Santa Teresa to stay for 3 days, ended up staying a week! |
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| Playa Avellanas |
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| Playa Avellanas |
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| Barrel! Secret Spot. |
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| Hike to the beach at Playa Suecos, Mal Pais |
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| Getting behind the Montezuma waterfalls. |
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| Big tree at Cabuya. |
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| Tico Transportation |
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| Playa Longosta |
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| Joe and Carolina's La Bodego Artisan Foods, Tamarindo |
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| "Yeah we are getting ready to swim at the most awesome spot ever!" |
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| Almost to another waterfall! |
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| Our Tico Guide at Montezuma waterfalls. |
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| Monkey skull at Montezuma waterfalls. Found another skull in another river later that week. |
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| Beachcombing |
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| To be a kid again! |
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| Rio Lajas, Cabuya. |
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| Costa Rica’s butterfly species make up approximately 90% of all Central American butterflies, 66% of neo-tropical butterflies and 18% of the world’s total butterfly species. |
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| roots, Montezuma |
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| Playa Marbella |
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| Casa Tranquila, Tamarindo |
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| Coastline, Southern Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica |
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| Coutis, Rincon de la Vieja |
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| Cows, Nicoya Peninsula |
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| Dog life, Playa Santa Teresa |
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| Playa Santa Teresa |
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| Don Jons |
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| Don Jons |
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| Don Jons, Santa Teresa |
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| Dream House, Cabuya |
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| Waterfall, Rincon de la Vieja |
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| Playa Hermosa |
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| Playa Montezuma |
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| Ficus tree |
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| Country Life, Nicoya Peninsula |
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| Beach grilling, Santa Teresa |
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| Joe's fish quiver |
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| Glassy waves! No one out! |
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| Chilling, Don Jons |
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| Heavy wave and bigger than you realize, way overhead! Playa Marbella. |
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| Hot Pots, Rincon de la Vieja. |
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| Iguana |
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| father/son |
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| Happy faces! |
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| Joe Simon, Playa Marbella |
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| Joe Simon, Casa Simon, Tamarindo |
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| Joe Simon |
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| Joe Simon, Playa Marbella |
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| Joe, Playa Marbella |
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| Jon Pacheco, Don Jons |
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| Jungle Hike, Cabo Blanco, most humid I have been in my life! |
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| Jungle road! |
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| Big plants, Rincon de la Vieja. |
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| Surf lesson for the newbies. |
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| Costa Rica is considered to possess the highest density of biodiversity of any country worldwide. While encompassing just one third of a percent of Earth’s landmass, approximately the size of West Virginia, Costa Rica contains four percent of species estimated to exist on the planet |
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| Stream crossing, Rincon de la Vieja |
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| Playa Negra |
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| Mal Pais |
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| Playa Marbella |
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| Playa Marbella |
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| Mattias |
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| Max heading back across the river after a surf, Tamarindo. |
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| Max leaps at Montezuma waterfalls. |
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| Max |
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| Max swiming at Montezuma waterfalls. |
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| Behind the Montezuma waterfalls. |
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| Max dives through the falls! |
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| Misty hike |
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| Rio Lajas |
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| Max surfing Santa Teresa. |
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| Max surfs. |
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| Father/Son surf session |
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| Rio Lajas, Cabuya |
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| Melanie, Santa Teresa |
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| Lagoon, Cabuya, Rio Lajas |
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| Playa Longosta |
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| Sam keeps an eye out for crocodlies, Rio Tamarindo |
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| Mel leaps, Montezuma. |
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| Are you stoked Mel? |
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| Mel is a surfer, Santa Teresa! |
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| Rincon de la Vieja |
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| Rincon de la Vieja |
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| Howler Monkeys, Casa Simon. |
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| My buddy! |
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| White faced Monkey, Rincon de la Vieja. |
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| Every hike was hard, one wrong step and you ended up on your rear, never let your guard down! |
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| Montezuma |
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| Montezuma waterfalls |
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| Mountain Lodge, Rincon de la Vieja. |
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| Guanacaste landscape |
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| Playa Grande, night of my best wave to date! |
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| Playa Montezuma |
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| Playa Negra |
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| Playa Longosta |
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| Our only river crossing this trip. On the way to Cabo Blanco from Mal Pais. No roads are on the maps. As a mapmaker by profession the maps of Costa Rica fall very short with me. |
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| Even the rivers flow with flowers. |
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| Rio Lajas |
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| Road to Montezuma from Mal Pais. |
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| Ficus Tree |
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| Roots |
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| Sam and Guapo, Casa Tranquila, Tamarindo. |
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| Sam, Playa Marbella |
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| Sam, Playa Negra |
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| Bike ride, Santa Teresa |
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| Playa Suecos |
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| Playa Hermosa |
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| Steaming vents, Rincon de la Vieja. |
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| Playa Longosta |
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| Rivermouth, Playa Longosta |
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| Big shell, Playa Hermosa |
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| Best swimming hole ever! |
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| Playa Suecos |
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| Sand dollar, Playa Negra |
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| Playa Suecos, Mal Pais |
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| Playa Suecos, Mal Pais |
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| Playa Suecos, Mal Pais. A Tico I was surfing with told me to take the family here, amazing to say the least! |
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| Just another shell. |
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| Shell, Cabuya |
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| Shells, Tamarindo |
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| Best beachcomb find ever, Playa Hermosa. |
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| Seriously this was the greasiest and slipperiest hike I have ever done! |
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| Jungle spider |
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| Santa Teresa |
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| surf check |
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| Big waves! |
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| Proper! |
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| Sunset, Playa Tamarindo |
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| Our Tico guide, Montezuma waterfalls. |
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| Our Tico guide was 56 years old and still dove the waterfalls! |
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| Traffic jam |
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| Catarata Cangreja, Rincon de la Vieja |
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| Best waterfalls of my life, the long hard hike keeps out the riff raff. We had it all to ourselves! |
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| Shaping up nicely, time to head out to surf. Playa Santa Teresa. |
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| Another empty righthander, surfs up! |
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| Views for days and no one surfing, I love it here in Cabuya! |
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| Carolina making sandwiches for La Bodego! |
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| The only bike I want to ride now and only for checking the surf! |
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| Sunset Surfer, Santa Teresa |
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| Santa Teresa |
1 comment:
Awesome pics man - looks like a great trip!
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