Costa Rica, Part 3

The day before we left, we went on a tour of the Tempisque River.  On our way there, we stopped at various spots to view sugarcane, watermelon and cantaloupe fields.

Sugar cane fields.  Workers from Nicaragua come and cut the fields with machetes, and load them into those carts in the left hand side of the picture.

Herding some cows to a different field.

These goats were headed to a different field as well.

Cashew nuts.  The locals eat the fruit (orange part) for their daily iron.   

There are colorful paintings all over in Costa Rica. 

This is on our boat tour.  We saw these capuchin monkeys.  

Also alligators all over!  

Aren't they cute?!  

They were very curious.

Our tour guide got within inches of them.

More alligators.

The boat we were on.

Mike and Jess.

After our boat tour we stopped in at some local place and had the yummiest lunch ever!  They made it over this fire.

One of the chefs.

Chicken and pork, rice, beans, potatoes, salsa and home made corn tortillas.  This was the best part of the day!

For dessert, we sucked on sugarcane sticks.  Haha, nice face!

Pottery of some sort.

After we finished eating, we stopped at this guys house and watched him build some pottery.

His wheel was made out of motorcycle parts.

He did an amazing job. It was incredible watching him build a bowl!

We then shopped from their pottery collection.  We bought one large serving bowl. 

This family does amazing work! 

Later that evening back at the resort, Bear and I combed the beach for sea turtles.

We found plenty of tracks.  And actually watched one come out of the sea, but others saw it too.  They caused such a commotion, the turtle decided the sea was a safer bet.

Our last afternoon on the beach. 

Did plenty of reading.  

These ugly iguanas are everywhere!  

Cheese. 

The beach from where we sat.

You gotta love Bear's view. :)

Hey there.

Shadows and flowers.  The last 2 pictures I took on our vacation.

Some day, I would love to head back to Costa Rica!  Do more exploring and travel around the country.  We explored only one Province, Guanacaste.  The people are very friendly and very happy!  I highly recommend this place to anyone.