Playa Samara (week 1) Costa Rica

A busy week of spanish lessons with Virginia, surf lessons, animal watching, cafe frequenting, general beach life oh and plenty of rain!

These guys are our local howler monkeys, they hang out in a bigger group as you may have seen from previous posts, this time they were crossing the local power lines above our heads. check out the cute baby one.

We have spent many rainy afternoons (it often downpours from 3/4pm and most evenings) in the organic cafe, good cake and good coffee. They do a mean Gallo Pinto a Costa Rican breakfast, (poached eggs tomato and rice and beans) anyway this little fella keeps the many dogs in check and likes this chair over all the others.

The beach is long in Samara and we ventured up south side to explore. When we got to the end of the beach we realised that the beach we visited on the long cycle was only at the end of this beach. Still we did get to see more of the beautiful beach, the horses and some of the local kids having a footie game.

Kyle visits us everyday and on Friday spent a few moments showing off a few moves, spot the Coati. These guys can climb, jump and have some mean claws to fight off inquisitive dogs.

Surfing and Spanish are going really well. I (Chris) can stand on the board but still can't brag about it in spanish. Kat is more of a pro, using increasingly smaller boards and trying to ride the unbroken waves. It is a beginners beach as the reef out sea takes some of the power you would expect to see in this region (thank god) Spanish is tough but we are making a poco progress.

We have made some plans for the week after next leaving Samara on 25th Oct heading south to Montezuma, Mai Pais and Santa Terasa. Until next post Adios amigos!