Activities: Pacific Beaches
Perhaps the most difficult aspect of diving is maintaining enough self control as to not become ridiculously excited when seeing something extraordinary. Not permitting your heart rate to rise or your breath to quicken is a challenge, to say the least.
With this end in mind, I hovered just above the sea bottom in Playa del Coco, daydreaming about the Advanced Diver Certification that I was here to earn. I glanced to my right and saw camouflaged in the rocks the oddest green and yellow sea turtle imaginable. It was about the size of my torso, …
Location: North Pacific, Playa del Coco »
Activities: Pacific Beaches, Scuba Diving and Snorkeling »
This was it. The last 24 hours of my 17-day trip through the Osa Peninsula and Golfo Dulce. Last month, during the planning phase, I was positive that by the sixteenth day I would be exhausted and ready to return home.
Now that the trip was drawing to a close, I found the exact opposite to be true. This little corner of the world, and all of the amazing people that I had met in it, energized me – and the idea of heading back to Liberia made me want to cry.
Vincent and I took the …
Location: Golfito, Golfo Dulce, Pavones, South Pacific »
Activities: Pacific Beaches, Shopping »
For peak wave conditions, the best time to surf in Pavones is the few hours before and during high tide. Today this would fall in the afternoon, meaning that I could enjoy a leisurely morning. After a big breakfast panini with fresh fruit, I caught the tail end of Free Willy on Satellite TV – and then watched a much more entertaining family of squirrel monkeys play in the trees from my window.
Around noon, Vincent, Aaron and I walked downtown to meet Tommy Neuner, an instructor for Venus Surf Camp, an organization whose curriculum – …
Location: Golfo Dulce, Pavones, South Pacific »
Activities: Pacific Beaches, Surfing »
