costa rica…take two
here is the view at esterillos, where we were able to find a nice girl who was working the bar at the beach who agreed to keep our stuff behind the counter with her while we swam. : )
and her is a little fishing boat in front of the mermaid statue that sits out on the end of a long promontory.
lillis was trying to do some yoga move on the beach (the same one that led her to kick me in the face earlier in the week) but eventually gave up do to the unsuitable conditions of the beach sand, and her physical exhaustion.
and then we did a little swimming and body surfing.
after we had had our fill of swimming (and fed lillis plenty of fish tacos at bubba’s – she LOVES bubba’s fish tacos) we met up with jimmy who took us out on one of his boats. we caught up witht he trash line (run off from the rains) about 8 miles out, and within 15 minutes i had caught this mahi mahi (dolphin).
here lillis enjoys the boat ride. earlier she was sitting in the bow of the boat and leaning out into the wind, kind of like i would expect a yellow lab to do : )
then she caught her first deep sea fish
i know there’s nothing more exciting than a fishing video, so i thought i’d include one here….it IS actually worth it (if you’re a lillis fan) to watch, just to listen to her commentary : )
the next day (our final one in jaco) we went out surfing. here lillis drops into a wave.
and here i am riding one to the shore. the guy at the surf shop on the north end of town (name eludes me right now) did a really good job of gettins us on a good board and of directing us to a beach that would be better for learning to surf. this was a MUCH more enjoyable experience than our previous surfing excursion!
then lillis and i get one more photo together before we head in (the beach makes her very VERY happy).
these cows also made lillis happy. not sure why??
it was a really great trip, though made slightly less relaxing by the whole theft thing. we stayed at hotel mango next to the airport our last night as we had an early AM flight, and we went out and met my friend katie and her husband alfonso for dinner there in san jose.
anyway, all the photos are here but even more spectacular is the awesome surfing video i created. actually, it’s really not that good and apparently the quantity (if not quality) was affected by some camera malfunction that i would have to let lillis explain.
OH, and this time, there was no plane skidding of a runway and preventing us from leaving on our appointed day…..pura vida!
