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We just returned from a quick trip to Costa Rica to celebrate my Father’s retirement/birthday and my sister’s birthday. Along with the family time, we took a lap down and around the Nicoya Peninsula and to some of the nearby volcanoes. Costa Rica is tiny, the size of Vermont and New Hampshire combined. While the roads were much better than people had suggested (everything was passable, not the car-eating holes like in Asia), any ‘major’ drive became a 3-4 hour bounce-fest on dusty or muddy roads.

Rincón de la Vieja

Rincón de la Vieja Panoramic

Friendly Goat

Fist Sized Red Flower

Flowers that collect water in the thick petals.

Thermales, Costa Rica Hot Springs

Smoke pours out of a hole in the ground, Rincón de la Vieja, Costa Rica

Smoke pours out of a hole in the ground, Rincón de la Vieja Volcano, Costa Rica

A small green Costa Rican lizard.

Bubbling mud, Rincón de la Vieja, Costa Rica.

Bubbling mud, Rincón de la Vieja Volcano, Costa Rica.

Our first few days were spent at a lovely farm, on the north-west side of Ricon de la Veija, Costa Rica’s ‘active volcano’. It popped it’s top a few years ago, but other than some trails being closed, there was no real sign of the eruption. The farm was situated in the ‘highlands’, up the slope from the baking plains near the pacific, right at the edge of the rain forest. The temperature was cool in the evenings and reminded us of warm summer days in Vermont (complete with holstein cows grazing in the fields). That is until we went deeper into the forest to the hot springs that came pouring out from behind our cabin. Soaking in piping hot water coming from the earth is always a neat experience, and it seemed the monkeys that lived in the area enjoyed the springs as well, leaving some ‘evidence’ for us to find one morning.

Iguana sun bathing, Rincón de la Vieja, Costa Rica.

Monkey watching from a tree, Costa Rica.

Hanging bridge in Bubbling mud, Rincón de la Vieja, Costa Rica.

Hanging bridge in Rincón de la Vieja, Costa Rica.

Off the beaten track the bridges seem sturdy.

Looks sturdy to me.

Pura Vida, Costa Rica

Next we headed down the coast to Ostional, with it’s black sand beach and turtles. We heard the wild stories of tens of thousands coming en mass to lay their eggs, but we were only lucky enough to see two behemoths dig their holes.

After laying her eggs at Ostional beach, an olive green ridley turtle makes her way back to the ocean.

A group of turtle helpers watch a black turtle laying eggs on Ostional Beach, Costa Rica

In the moonlight a black turtle laying eggs on Ostional Beach, Costa Rica

Black turtle laying eggs on Ostional Beach, Costa Rica with helpers watching carefully.

Farther south to the tip of the Nicoya Peninsula brought us to Santa Teresa, a town of surfers, yoga instructors, and gangs of tourists learning to be a surfer or yoga instructor.