looked as if it was designed specially for backpackers & surfers, you could sleep there in your
tent or rent a hammock for 6$ or get some other cheap rooms and it was just next to
the beach. Whole area where we stayed was placed along the road leading by the shore.
Views were amazing and as it was season for surfing now the waves were awesome!
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| Carribean Sea |
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| Rock J's |
We arrived at evening and went straight for swiming but although the beach was sandy -
at this part there were rocks and as i've found out there were sea-urchins
and i ended up with almost 20 horns in my feet. They were really hard to take out
- i had to make deep wounds to take those breaking horns out. But other day we went
to other place where the huge waves were where Peter, Ondra and Schnorchel went with kayaks.
It took them long time to get to the place where all surfers were. Though surfers were
friendly - they were surprised and asked if guys were trying to commit suicide. They
words turned out to be pretty close to truth as Peter & Ondra cought really big waves but
they broke very fast and beat them down hard. Peter even broke his Paddle and had to swim!
Luckly it came out without bigger injuries, just a hand scratch.
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| Ondra getting through the wave |
Next day we went for another beach which was said to be better for surfing. We took playboats,
rent surfboards and went surfing! We 've found perfect place great for surf and kayaking! Waves
were great as they were getting up smoothly and going for long time, then breaking far
from the shore. We had a wonderful day there and chilled in evening afterwards.
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| Me Surfing! |
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| On the way to Turrialba |
Then we went back to Turrialba, we went for Orossi river but when we arrived after 1 hour
drive we found out that there was not enough water so we ended up planning rest of the trip.
We decided to move on to Norther Carribean slope as we hoped to catch last moments of good
water over there. From not that warm Turrialba we got again to warm area where we stayed
at nice cabbins thanks to our friend Oscar. On the way there we had two rivers - first was
Rio Torro - but it didnt have enough water so we went for next one which was nearby -
Rio Sucio. It was amazing river as it's coming from bottom of the Volcano and we predict
that it had some sulphur inside becouse of it's amazing orange colour. It turned out
to be quite stip & fast river with alot of rocks. Unfortunetly we didnt have perfect level and it was a little bit lower the we would love to but still it was nice fun!
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| Rio Sucio |
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| At Rio Orossi |
We met also Travis - who is renting boats to us and local guy Louis who was very friendly
and helpful to us and showed us uppper upper sarapiquie part which was named Pillas. It was
one of best runs in this area but again water was quite low. Though it was fun run.
As we still had plenty of time left after this part - we went for famous Pozo Azul.
It's kind of park & drop waterfall, with pretty much easy entrance and deep pool.
Though in guide book it was said that becouse of those conditions - alot of people ignore
heigh of it - 27ft and get injuried. It was my first waterfall so i was super excited to
jump it. We parked at field of local guy - which cost us 1000 colones each (2$). Then it
was walk 15 minutes before you get there. The part up from this waterfall is said to be
best part of the area - but there wasnt enough water for that unfortunetly. ACtually it was
quite low even for running the waterfall but we all decided to go for it.
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| put in near Pozo Azul |
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| Jumping Pozo Azul! |
Recently i read article about jumping waterfalls - about "this feeling". I was smiling when
i read it - as i had no idea about it. This time i felt it, Even though i have really strong
height fear i wasnt afraid at all. I just wanted to jump it so hard. Schnorchel went first,
showing the perfect run, timing & position firing me up even more after this.
I went straight to my boat after that and went for put in. Had in mind all the tips,
big stone on the right, then in between, get a lil bit of speed, pass the edge, keep the
stroke in the water, straight it up and then drop to the front. POW! weeehe, so great fun!
I enjoyed it so much that i went there 3 times! Unfortunetly just before my last jump,
Matjo boofed the waterfall and lended flat realeasing the back muscles and damaging the
lower spine muscles. As walk up was really long and slippery, we choosed to go down the river
with him - Class I but with alot of stones, which made it long run for guys.
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| Matjo before his crash |
Thanks to help of Illaji who we met there - we know that they should go straight to San Jose as
the local clinics wont be able to help him if something is wrong. So they got to local
clinic and from there he got sent with Ambulance. After that
they drove to San Jose for X-ray. Costa Rica is said in most of the guides to have cheap
food and bad medical care.. SO Costa Rica has not cheap food for sure but clinic Biblia
in San Jose is amazing world class hospital! They did alot of research for Matjo and
"Luckly" it turned out to be "only" lower back compression and torsion.. well hopefuly
he will regain as soon as possible! For now he had to give back his boat and rest.
Next Day we split, half of group went for Sarapiquie upper part which is run by rafts and Ondra, Matjo, Peter, Nina & Me went for chilll at local wave when i've been playboating little bit which was great fun again!
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| Some Rodeo fun |
Well after those adventures it was x-mass time. We went for swimming in the morning and
after that started the preparations. We got 4kg of meat, 3kg of salads, 3kg of potatoes,
we made grill from shopping basket and spent wonderful evening in christmas atmosphere.
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| Preparing Salad |
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| Work in progress |
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| Our Grill |
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| Cold Fires |
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| X-mass dinner! |
After this wonderful x-mass eve we went to Pacific area . Way was leading straight through the mountains which granted us amazing views! Though ate alot of fuel from our tank and in the middle of the way we run out of it nearly! But we asked local guy who was really friendly and drove back with us to his home where he sold us fuel so we could reach our destination without problems! At evening we arrived to Dominical - our next headquarters just beside the ocean. Pacific Area, here we are!
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| Amazing views on the way to Pacific shore |
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| Fun Fun Fun Car Crew! |
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