Finally November???

Well, time sure move slowly when you're relaxing and trying to chill out in the sun. I'm not sure why it seems we've been here so much longer than we really have, maybe because we've stayed in four different towns in 2 and a half weeks, maybe because we've been so relaxed, or maybe because we've done so many things (usually we only get to do these kinds of things as a family on the weekends, and here we can do them any day anytime). At any rate, here we are in November at last! 4 more weeks in Costa Rica, and what are our plans?

We are going to stay in Nosara / Ostional ( Harmony Hotel ) for some time, maybe 4 nights, I'm not sure. It's just up the road from Samara (about 45 minutes drive), and it's one of 2 or 3 main nesting sites for the Ridley Turtles. We are lucky enough to be there during a prime time. They say one of the best months is November, either early in the morning or late at night. They move with the changing tide, and also with the moon cycles. We are coming into a new moon cycle, so we should get lucky. At times, they say, you can see 2 or 3 hundred climbing ashore to lay over 100 eggs each in the sand. Some turtles have been over 1500 kilo's and more than 2 meters long! I hope to have lots and lots of fantastic picture's for you all.

So, after Nosara / Ostional, we want to head north again to Playa Del Coco. I've heard it's another cute little town with fabulous beaches. Samara just wasn't a place we could see ourselves staying long term, but maybe Playa Del Coco will inspire us. After a week or so there, we were thinking of checking our Monteverde and Santa Elena. There they have another amazing cloud forest and waterfalls. A canopy tour or zip line is so intriguing, but the boys are much too small for this. We picked this area because I found a Gondola tour there and am hoping it's both safe and fun for the boys. They enjoyed the gondola in Banff so much, I think this will be fun as well. Just near Monteverde and Santa Elena is La Fortuna and the Arenal Volcano. I would really like for us to stay there and see the action of this active Volcano. There is suppose to be a very nice hotel with great views of the lava flow, I think that would be super fantastic.
From this time, we should be (you never know) near to the end of November, and will be heading back to the Apart-Hotel Roma in Heredia. A few days there to get sick of the city and begin craving the sea, and we'll be flying off to Belize.

Anyways, these are our plans now, maybe check back in a few weeks to see how on track we still are? You never know where we'll end up, and sometimes neither do we!