Let’s boogie!

Hello faithful readers! 

So today I hear you are getting an actual post from Emily, those travel days are hard and it can be a daunting task to have to think when you feel a lot like sleeping! I’m probably more used to typing things up when I’m tired because I have to do it all the time at work. She also has to proofread mine and then post it so it is a team effort to bring these posts to you. I appreciate her making sure that I haven’t messed up! 

We were able to get out this morning and do a little exploring!! It’s nice to be able to just walk off and see what goes on and what’s around to see. Basilito is small and Emily says it’s less developed than where she goes a couple hours south in Samara. I think that it’s nice that it isn’t super developed. There are a few resorts to the south a few hundred meters, and a bit past that. 

The beach is large! Plenty of room for everyone. We did have to cross the bridge that our hotel is 200 meters south of. The bridge is a one lane steel construction bridge that is not special except for the fact it seems to be the only one and there is a fair amount of traffic that uses it along with people. There are a handful of shops/tiendas and small restaurants/sodas. There are a few regular restaurants/restaurante. I’m looking forward to trying the sodas, they are supposed to be more local type places, the food is supposed to be good, kind of like when on the road stopping at truck stops because the food is supposed to be good. I think there should be plenty of places to try here and if we need anything we should be able to find it. There is a little bigger town about 8 kilometers north of here we may have to check out if we run out of things to do, though we may end up there during our excursions anyway. We have started planning what we would like to do as far as those go. I already have four days of scuba lined up that I’m looking forward to. I’m going to do two tank dives, which is just two dives, one after the other and they move locations. I hope to see 8 different places. Emily is lined up to come with me to snorkel for three of them. We are going to snorkel tomorrow with Kevin’s Tours in the morning. 

So we picked this area of Costa Rica because of the Concha beach, it is supposed to have decent snorkeling from shore according to the travel book and several other blogs that I read. So today we made our way to playa concha after lunch. It is a bit of a walk but not bad. The sea was a bit rough to try out snorkeling there, big waves. We’ve decided we will try some morning when it should be a little calmer. The beach is basically sea shells, little tiny bits of sea shells that get everywhere! I’ve had some chaffing, thought it was the elastic but it was shells. 

In the meantime the playa Brasalito is the closer beach and has some good waves but not as intense. We spent a fair amount of time there just in the water, then we got boogie boards!! We then worked on riding the waves! We both enjoyed that. We’re hoping to become more proficient at that before we leave. We won’t be able to bring them home without it being a pain so we will donate them either to the hotel or some kids on the beach. We will probably turn some kid into a wave chaser that lives with it’s parents with dreadlocks and smokes weed a lot, who knows though maybe that’s their best life anyway?

We had only ate at the hotel’s restaurant until tonight. It has good food, fair prices that always comes out fancy looking. Tonight though we tried the Indian restaurant a few places down from us. It was very good. I had a chili garlic prawn dish with some lemon coconut rice. Both did not disappoint! I could eat the prawns again. It was a bit expensive, comparable to dinner for two at Red Lobster though. 

For high season there doesn’t seem to be an extreme number of people. That’s a plus, things are booked up though so I am not sure if there’s just limited resources or if the bigger resorts down the road monopolize all the excursions. At least the sunset catamaran tours. It seems to be the one to get and it’s full. 

I think that I mentioned when we were in Jamaica that I got new sandals, Hoka One One, I definitely will be going back to the Teva’s. They seem very nice and I may like them if we go whitewater rafting but they are not open enough and they have an insole with traction that is rough on bare feet. I like these type of sandals for these travels because I can wear them without socks for casual and then if I need to wear the pants with the zip off legs for certain things I can match socks so it looks like they are all one color and just shoes. I can’t recommend Hoka One One. 

So the hotel as I mentioned is a little more rustic than we were expecting, it is still nice. It appears that they have been doing a lot of exterior painting as it is in good shape and some looks newer. It isn’t a new hotel though and that adds charm but contributes to the rustic feeling. 

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