We last left off in Puerta Viejo... After taking in the relaxing atmosphere around town all day on Thursday, we headed to the Rio Pacure for some white water rafting. We were on the river for about 2 hours, stopped for lunch, and had about an hour and a half more of rapids and swimming in the (freezing) currents. Best part... I (Kim) only flew out of the boat once! The next day we rented some bikes and headed to a nearby town. Once there we had some beers at Soda Maxi, the best (and only) bar in town. Then we headed into the ocean for some snorkeling. Although not as cool as swimming with whale sharks (see stories from Utila) we saw some pretty neat creatures, include a hugh starfish, some crabs, and some crazy colored fish.
We headed to Tortugero the next morning via a four hour boat tour in which we saw several types of birds, a turtle, monkeys, a sloth, a croc and more (oh my). The first night we did a turtle watching tour where we were able to watch a green turtle laying her eggs (about 180 of them) in the sand. Not only was the turtle quite large, the view of the stars while out in the middle of the national park at night was great... living in New York for so long, I forgot there was such a thing as stars. The next day we took a canoe out in the national park. Again, we saw a lot of wild life, including two caiman alligators, which freaked me out, even though James insisted that they don´t attack people. They also said that sharks don´t attack in shallow water, but we all saw Jaws, right?
We are now in our last city, San Jose, and will hang around here until we head home on Thursday. We have to fly through Newark and we are hoping that we get delayed so that we can head into New York and say hello to all of our long lost friends there. Thanks for keeping up with our trip. Talk to you all soon.
