We are at this gorgeous resort that is about a 20 minute walk away from
the beach. After breakfast, we walked
down to the Pacific Ocean along a very stony beach that had hundreds of tiny
hermit crabs scuttling around the stones.
A portion of the beach had some base sedimentary rocks that had had lava
flows, making for some dramatic contrast.
We walked though a little bit of forest to the next beach which was
deserted, and it was glorious sand.
Then we went through a cave (wading through water) until we came onto
an ever more glorious beach!
In the afternoon, we went for a walk through the rainforest jungle
behind the hotel, and came upon some interesting plants. This one is called Hot Lips!!
There was plastic piping along part of the trail, and this appeared to
be part of the water supply. We came
upon a piece of pipe that had been punctured and was spraying water. Brian, showing the most energy I had seen so
far, happily brought out some hockey tape from his pack(!), and repaired the
leak temporarily. An engineer’s walk!
Some of the final highlights of the trail were a passionflower vine,
and an owl butterfly (named for the owl eye in the wing) that was only about 6”
long.
By the end of the day, because of the temperatures in the mid-30’s, we
had both had two showers and were on our third change of clothing. This was quite a change from 8000 feet and
cloud forest!
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