Monteverde National Park/Erin Arrives

I met Erin in Monteverde on Friday the 13th (go figure) This was my first trip away from my boat so it felt really good to explore on land a bit. I took the bus, hungover, and after 3 hours and a big bottle of water, I realized there were no restrooms on board. Needless to say the last ½ was spent in discomfort. Once I arrived, I found the hostile where we were to meet but she took off to see a Frog Farm or something. We eventually met up and had a blast. We hiked about 7-8 miles through the rainforest on the following day. The pics do not do it justice. It literally felt like another world and the sounds just went off.

We returned to the hostile exhausted and crashed pretty hard. I woke up in the middle of the night and literally screamed. While sleeping, I heard cars outside my window and forgot where I was at. I jumped up thinking my anchored dragged and I was washed up on some beach or something. Pretty sad but funny at the same time.

On day two, we went to the 2nd most active volcano in the world. We spent the afternoon hiking down to a waterfall and swam for a bit. In the evening, we took a tour out to a remote road where we were promised we would see a lava flow. We did indeed see lava but it was only a little speck at the top of the volcano. It poured rain so we drank the equivalent of Costa Rica moonshine….”Four Feathers”. After getting a little tipsy, we hopped into a river heated from the local springs. It was in the high 80’s but after a few “Four Feathers”, who knows…….

We’re still in Puntarenas, planning on working South on Saturday. We’re ready to go now but we’re up in a canal and need to wait for a high tide to take us out. Right now, the tides are at 4am and 3:30pm. Our next anchorage is about 20 miles south so if we took the afternoon tide out, we wouldn’t make it by dark. Saturday, the morning high tide is at 5:30 so we’ll take that one. More later!

Dan