We started the day out early, heading off to do a farewell hike around Manuel Antonio National Park. It ended up being about 5 miles and left us absolutely drenched in sweat ... again! Fortunately we had enough time to go back to the hotel and shower before packing up to leave. The hike was up and around the point of land adjacent to the beach we were at the other day and is the same one I posted some pics of from the catamaran trip. Although the path was well maintained, I'd say there was probably 500 to 600 steps to be negotiated. Doing the first 100 or so of those steps brought us to the first lookout point.
As we continued on (and on and on and on with the steps) we reached an inland high point where we kept hearing shuffling through the leafs adjacent to the path. Finally we spotted this unique crab. Why it exists perhaps 1000 feet up from the sea is beyond me, but we must have seen a couple dozen of them.
And then it was back to the room to get cleaned up for the 5 hour drive back to the starting point of this journey, Tamarindo. But on that trip we finally fulfilled Tina's OCD wish. We saw a ton of people gathered at a bridge over a river and on the far side of the bridge was a restaurant called "Crocodiles Gathering". We'd finally found Tina's elusive crocodiles.
They hang out in the river here enjoying the muddy smell of all the other croc's and then when high tide rolls in from the ocean they make there way towards it feeding along the way.
So that's it for this day other than to do another shout out to our grand-dog Kodi who's heading off tomorrow to his new home in Dallas, TX. I think he needs to talk his parents into letting him chase sticks in the oceans of Costa. This is one happy, satisfied dog.
Adios for now!
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