Have you ever had your toe bitten by a crocodile? I haven’t, but I saw our guide on the night tour of the mangroves get his bitten. He was trying to catch a small four foot crocodile, but missed grabbing it correctly, and went ass over tea kettle off the front of the boat and into the water. The croc then proceeded to bite him on the toe. If you look closely at the picture of the croc, you can see the guide’s toe bandaged up with a piece of cloth. We also saw a large 10 foot long crocodile swimming just under the water beside the boat for about 5 minutes or so. The American Crocodile can grow to be about 17 feet long and live to be over 100 years old.
We have been here two weeks and that seems to right length of time to visit a location. Time enough to get settled, do the activities that you want to do, have some time for school and have some time to relax and write our blogs. We spent a couple of hours on the beach almost every other day, body surfing the waves and just hanging out. The pool at our villa also was well used and kept us refreshed and cool. Our villa was located right in the jungle, so we didn’t have to leave the comforts of home to experience some of the wildlife in Costa Rica. Our most recent exciting visitor was a highly poisonous coral snake. By the time I got to see it, the maintenance guy had stoned it to death. (A good snake is a dead snake!)
We leave Quepos for San Jose today, and then fly out to Huatulco, Mexico on Saturday. Costa Rica had been really enjoyable, and I would highly recommend it to all. Weather this time of year (the dry season) has been hot and sunny most days.
The Quepos region offered lots of different activities to do and I think gave the real feel of Costa Rica. Good food, beaches, jungles, and people. Hopefully we will make it back here again someday.
Cheers for now.. Ian
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