Tamarindo

Buenos dias from Tamarindo!

We left La Fortuna's rainforest climate and upon hitting the province of Guanacaste the climate did a complete 360. Instead of humid, overcast, and rain every 5 minutes, we hit a very dry, hot, sunny, and barren area after driving for about an hour and a half. Crazy.

One thing that we failed to mention was a thrilling moment when we were hiking up from the waterfall in Fortuna. Everyone knows that Europeans are famous for sporting nut huggers at the beach. As we were hiking up, this elderly and clearly European man was hiking down in his hiking boots, speedo, and purple, unbuttoned, button down shirt tucked into his speedo.

Anyway, back to Tamarindo. This is an awesome surf town that has a left and right beach break with some hidden rocks around the cove. The mountains come down to the water at some spot and it really looks like what you would see on LOST. We were supposed to stay at this one hostel that has some obsession with cows (everything was painted to look like a cow) but when I went to talk to the lady using as much spanish I could muster, I still had no idea what she was saying and decided it just wasn't a good idea. We ended up finding a sweet place to stay right across from the beach, Cabinas de Marielos. Marielos is this extremely kind woman who runs the hostel. She gave us a beer when we got there, pointed out iguanas and told us where we should eat, etc. We rented surfboards and got out there yesterday to hit some sizable waves. Ian did really really well for his first time. After that we went back to our room and talked to our neighbors. Two guys are staying in the room next to us and they are from Ottowa and Toronto. The one guys name is Mike and the other one we are not quite sure of. I think his name is Narmin and Ian thinks it is Harmin. I just started to call him Garmin and that is what I will call him for the rest of our time here. They are really cool and I think we'll try to hangout with them tonight. Last night, after only having a cup of coffee to drink ALL DAY and no food, we ventured out to find this pizza place. After walking all around the town in the heat, dust, and being completely famished and irritated we finaaly decided to get the map for the place and just drive. It was worth it. The pizza was awesome and it came accompanied with about 23434 mosquito bites.

This morning I got up at 630 and went to the beach. Thats all for now. Chao.