Carribean Beach Time and National Parks

After our Arrival in Puerto Viejo we spended a lot of our time in our beautiful House Casa Blanca. It has huge, beautiful grounds and there is always something new to discover in the garden. To be honest we found more animals here in our garden then in the National parks. I reported already from the Sloth bear hanging there. Next to him we had monkeys playing in the trees , hummingbirds flying around the amazing flowers and every night a loud frog concert starts which is a perfect match to the sound of the sea which we can hear from our terrace. There is a house keeper who takes  care about all and he is doing a perfect job. We talk a lot to each other and it works even he does not speek english and our spanish is still in it infancy. To the house belongs also a dog named "SAM" which is guarding the complete area - Such a dear, trusting dog and everyone who knows me knows that I am normally afraid of dogs. Our Son and Sam gets best friends and we had a lot of Fun together. 
We took the house also as a basis to visit the Nationalparks in this area. They are all reachable by a 20 minutes Drive from Puerto Viejo. We started with Cahuita which is in the North. Cahuita offers both hikes and time by the sea, which is a great interaction for us and the beaches in Cahuita are also "real" caribean as in Puerto Viejo the Beaches are rough and natural. Both types has it advantages and anyway the Water temperature is 28 degrees, so that swimming is possible the whole day. I started normally the day with watching the sunrise and takeing a bath directly after the sun went up.
Another Nationalpark is Manzanillo which is in the South and directly at the Boarder to Panama. We also took a Hike but i think the most valueable Places are deep in the Rainforrest. We tried to get there but we ended up in a dead end. In the end it was not our favourite Nationalpark.

Next to Nationalparks we spended a lot of time at the beaches arround our House. Punta Cocles is just a 5 Minutes walk from the House and also Punta Negro can be reached by a walk but we decided to find the end which is reachable by car also. Building sand castles and bodyboarding on the waves were our main occupations. Never did this since years and forgot about how many fun this can be.
A highlight are also the saltwater Pools for which we have a direct access from the House. Many things to explore between the tides and everyday our place to be before Sun goes down. We are still here until end of the Week and enjoy every breath!

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