Boxing Day, words

To our northern friends, Happy Boxing day! The first I had ever heard of Boxing Day was on the T.V. Show M.A.S.H. a long while back. 

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We slowly ramped up our activities after a couple of days just relaxing. This morning we snorkeled the north end of Playa Brasalito. The travel books don’t say that there is good snorkeling from shore, I think they are looking for something different than Emily and I. We found that the beach here was actually pretty nice for snorkeling. I do think it’s limited but good. We seen a lot of things, eel, sea snake, crabs, sea slugs, star fish, a lot of different fish and some corals and interesting rock formations. There are a lot of puffer fish here and they are fairly good sized. I tried to get some good photos of them but they really blend in with the rock. We spent a fair amount of time in the water looking at everything. 

For lunch we had pizza, the day cook is better at pizza than the night cook. I need to get some pictures of the kitchen here to add to the blog. It’s pretty small. 
The food is good but they do not operate like they do in the United States, they run on Tico Time. Tico is a Costa Rican. They are not fast about anything, they’re super relaxed and things take a while including your food. I believe the hotel restaurant is more Tico Time than some of the other places we’ve been. 

This afternoon we took the boogie boards out but there wasn’t much waves and the tide was out. Tides come and go twice a day with about four to six hours in between. It really is noticeable on the beach. Since there wasn’t much for waves we went to Playa Cochal to add some shells to our swim suits. It is a very busy beach on the north end. There are a lot of vendors that will offer you drinks or a shady spot on the beach with some chairs for ten dollars. There’s music usually from the vendors area, today there was steel drums being played. When they first started up is sounded like a marching band was warming up. 
There is also a fair number of people congregated on the north end, once you move south it thins out. 
We didn’t find the water to be much better at a lower tide than the other day, I did have less shells in my shorts though. I don’t know that all the hype is really worth it unless you want to be around a lot of people and buy drinks and trinkets. They also do massages over there, for a moment I thought I was at work, there was a full moon just laying there on the massage table. Stuff you don’t want to see at the beach or on any ambulance call! 

We went down to a American restaurant which really means United States type food as from north to south this is all the Americas. I think mostly they’re about burgers and fries with Black Angus beef. Which the beef there was better than at the hotel, I had some of Emily’s burger, I actually had some ribs that weren’t bad. Probably the closest to pork from the States as I’ve had in a foreign country. 

It’s going to be an early night for me, I need to rest up for scuba (hopefully) in the morning, the dive center is picking us up at 7:30 so everything should go as planned. There’s no middle men in this operation. I believe Emily said that Hilda, the owner here uses them when she dives.