Well, it had to come to an end. Today is our last day at the beach and tomorrow we head for San Jose. Tuesday at 7:15 AM we take off for home – well at least as far as Calgary and Dustin’s home. So I’ll begin this last post with a wish for a Happy Easter and a great spring. When one thinks of spring, one thinks of flowers. Maureen has asked me to put up some more photos of flowers so here is the first. I haven’t got a clue what these are called. They are huge flowers on trees here.
Here is a second flower, one we found in La Fortuna. It doesn’t grow on trees like the other one, rather it grows on large plants that are suitable for flower gardens in one’s yards.
Of course, taking photos of flowers often finds Maureen in the photos. She definitely loves flowers. As everyone likely knows, roses are her favourite flowers. Roses are that common here. Those that we have seen have obviously been imported.
Of course, since I am putting up the blog and taking the photos, it only figures that I would include some wildlife in the photos as well. Here is a green iguana. So far I have found about four different kinds of iguanas as well as a number of different species of other lizards.
And, what is a blog post without photos of birds. This interesting guy is a woodpecker that has found a feast of discarded fruit. He is sure surprised to find food beyond his wildest imagination. Okay, birds don’t have an imagination. I’m the one who gets a bit carried away.
This is actually a small bushy tree in flower. It reminded me of trees in China. We have noticed that some trees that were flowering when we arrived here are still in flower. Some others began to flower a few weeks ago and look as though they will stay flowering at least until the rainy season starts. Once that season starts, I have no idea what this place will look like. Maybe that should be a project for a different year – Costa Rica in the rainy season – not!
Behind this iguana coming down from the tree is the Copacabana Hotel that is next to the beach. We pass this place every morning that we go for a walk to the beach then down the length of the beach. We found out that the return walk is actually nine kilometres in length. Obviously we have been getting our exercise while here.
Some of the birds we see are actually rather strange such as this bird. It is a gorgeous bird and only looks strange when one looks at the eyes. Red eyes ringed with black.
About a block from our villa is a park that is filled with flowering plants and trees. This interesting flower is representative of some of them. Obviously I can’t post them all as I have to leave you wanting to come and see for yourself what there is to see here in Costa Rica.
This little guy decided to pay a visit to our villa and parked himself only a few metres from where we sit to enjoy the cooler night air. We did get to see his cousin while walking on the beach in the daytime. There has to be zillions of crabs here with at least billions of different species to find.
This is the fruit of a cashew (the cashew is on the bottom of the fruit). We pass by one of these trees on our way to the beach each morning. We have noticed that the Scarlett Macaws love eating this fruit.
Since I keep mentioning the beach, I decided to give you another look at the beach. I took this in the late afternoon. You can’t exactly see it in this photo, but the crests of the waves have been reaching up to eight feet. This has made surfing become even a hotter activity on the beach.
For Maureen and I, surfing is a spectator sport. Even then, as soon as the sunset arrives, we turn our attention there. I was lucky to have another sunset aficionado offer to take our photo with the sunset. His buddies warned us that we were in trouble as he took horrid photos. Well, in our opinion, he did a great job.
Well, this brings to an end, our time in Costa Rica. So for now, we say bye to all here. But, have no fear. We will again return to this web site to tell our stories when we again travel to new places in order to discover the wonders of our world.