Scott has been here for about a week and a half, and we have had some great adventures so far... I can't believe we only have 4 more days together; time has certainly been moving fast.

A few days ago we visited a few of the local beaches. First on our list was Playa Hermosa. This is a small cove a few minutes north of Coco beach. Its beautiful and friendly, but has a lot of unfinished construction in the area. Yet another product of the US financial meltdown.

Keep driving north, and you run into Playa Panama. This beach is very quiet and relaxing, with a few little restaurants dotting the coast. We sat down at El Velero Hotel for a couple of BLT sandwiches. The bacon was cooked just right, but the tomatoes were a little green for Scott's taste. After all, he is a tomato connoisseur...

The next day we headed south, to Playa Ocotal. What we found there shocked us both. We started walking along the coast, heading north, and came across some tide pools. At the end there were more tide pools separated by a few dozen feet of water. I decided to jump in and swim across, just to see what was around the corner.

When I saw what was there, and explained what I had seen to Scott, we knew what we had to do. We left Ocotal for a few minutes to go find large ziplock bags. We then used these bags to float our packs across the inlet, and climbed over around the corner...

I think this video explains it best:


The next day was a planning day, to research our assault on Arenal Volcano... more about that in the next post...