PURA VIDA!

Am sipping a Pina Colada and listening to Calypso music in the bar as I create.  What a good life or Pura Vida as the locals say!

We are now on the East Coast. Walked in the Caribbean Sea this aft.  It took 2 hours to get at this lodge by boat. Laguna Lodge in Tortuguero National Park.  This is the area to which I really wanted to go.  The turtles are not laying eggs now. That ended in Oct. It would be fun to be a volunteer to help count the eggs at night.  Will have to come back for that.  Have seen only a few live turtles. Lots of turtle art in the the stores tho.  :-)))

Have gone on several small boat trips into the canals and rivers.  Saw a flower this morn that only blooms once and only in the early morn. Beeeutiful! Orchids are everywhere.  Saw 3 dif kinds of monkeys in trees right next to each other. Several with babies.,  And, yes, heard the Howler monkeys. LOTS of birds.  Saw several sloths with a baby ~ both 2 and 3 toed.  Lots of butterflies and insects too.

Combo just played "Rice and beans."  Fun!  Meals all include rice an dbeans made with a great sauce, some meat, and chopped vegies and lots of fruit.  Today the dessert was covered with wsp ike fly so I passed. 

I could stay here a week, but we are off at 7AM manana to travel until 5 PM to Fortuna in the middle of country - I could be wrong on the name. This drink is really good. 

Pura vida, Claudia