Costa Rica-Part 4

Sunday we drove 3 1/2 hours to Quepos and our home here was the Hotel Parador.  This resort resembled a quaint villa in Spain with beautiful tiles in the pools and European antiques displayed throughout.  The resort is set up on a hillside overlooking the ocean.

A life size crocodile was in the shallow end of one of the pools and a little girl, about 3 years old, was approaching the crocodile saying ‘the crocodile is not real, the crocodile is not real’.  She finally worked up enough nerve to touch it, she was so cute. 

While in Quepos we went out on a 60-foot catamaran.  We spotted a humpback whale in the distance and quickly sped over to where it was spotted.  We waited and kept watch and then we would see the whale again and try to get close before it went under again.  It was fun to try, but we never were able to get closer than a couple of football fields away.

Back at the resort we were sitting out by the pool having a bite to eat and an iguana came up to our table like a puppy begging for food.  There are signs around that say ‘do not feed the iguanas’ but my husband paid no attention and fed him some grapes.  The waiter came over and ran him off (the iquana, not my husband); but in just a few minutes, here he comes again.  This time the waiter ran him far off.  We sat there eating and did not see the iguana anywhere.  Then all of a sudden we heard all of this hullabaloo and turned around in time to see the iguana jump from a tree onto a table and everyone at the table started running backward.  It was halarious to watch.  He just wanted some more grapes!

One of the main reasons I wanted to go to this area was to visit the Manuel Antonio National Park.  Unfortunatley the park is closed on Mondays, which is when we were there.  This National Park epitomizes everything people flock to Costa Rica to see: stunning beaches, a magnificent setting with islands offshore, lush rainforest laced with easy to walk trails, and wildlife galore. The people we spoke with say there is good chance that you will see monkeys (howler, white faced, and possibly squirrel monkeys), sloths, and coatimundis.  So this is on my Must Do list for my next visit to Costa Rica.

Quepos has some of the best game fishing in the world with marlin, sailfish, snapper, Amberjack, Wahoo, Dorado, Yellow fin and big eye tuna, and roosterfish found in abundance here.  So if you are a fisherman…..

Are you ready to go to Costa Rica yet?  I am..more later.