Costa Rica

Today was action packed and the worst and steepest roads I've ever driven on. Our little rental car is the little engine that never quits. No flat tires so far on these roads is a miracle🤞🤞We had an incredible breakfast at our Ecofarm then took a walk around the property to see what they grow. I found out this morning that the tilapia fish I had for dinner last night was from the ponds on the property. They have so many fish in the ponds. The 6 dogs came with us on our walk. The littlest one we discovered this morning had to be picked up from one of the family because it just wanted to follow us, but it's just too tiny!!
The family owns a lot of land here and grow lemons, oranges, guava, bananas and have cattle, chickens and likely a lot that we are not aware of. After a walkabout we drove into Monteverde and Santa Elena. We found our Night Tour location, then drove out to the site of the Tigre Waterfall. The tour was too long so we had a coffee and drove the very narrow, steep roads back to town to the main town center and shopped around. Anthony and I bought PURA VIDA rings to renew our vows to live a content, happy and pure life!!!! ❤️❤️ Then we went for coffee because some of the best coffee is grown here in Monteverde. Following coffee, we drove to a restaurant at Belmar Hotel that one of the guests at the Ecolodge recommended. It had such great views to the ocean. We could see the cloud moving in, then clearing, continually. I had an amazing kombucha, locally made with strawberry, watermelon and ginger. It was so good. Then I also had a gin and tonic which was different than how ours typically taste. Anthony had a flight of craft beers. The fish tacos, nachos and snacks with the beers were all really flavorful. Our last adventure of the day was the Night Walk at El Refugio in the cloud forest. This was an incredible experience and the pictures our guide was able to get with our phones was amazing.
We saw two types of birds that were sleeping and don't move at all when the lights shine on them. We saw a bright rainbow toucan, a tarantula, a 🦂 scorpion that glows with a black light on it, 2 green side-striped palm pit vipers, a sloth, a porcupine, a hummingbird that visits 2500 plants for the nectar as well as fruits and seeds to feed its high use energy to keep warm in cooler temperatures here, army and leaf cutter ants ( saw the massive nest), and a 500 year old strangler fig tree that has another tree that grew inside it and choked the outer tree. It was a giant. We then had to drive these crazy roads in the dark back to the Ecolodge!Lue lisää