Travel Day to Santa Teresa

Another early start today, had to catch the 6AM bus out of Monteverde.  The ride out was really beautiful, at least the 10 mins I wasn't asleep for.  We got off in Puntareñas, a port city on the Pacific between mainland Costa Rica and the Nicoya peninsula.  The ferry ride across was really nice with the sea breeze. Pelicans diving for fish made for good entertainment.

Then we took a bus to Cobano, which was really hot and completely filled with people to the point where school girls were sitting on each other's laps.  In Cobano we stopped off for frozen lemonade at a café before getting on another hot bus to Santa Teresa.  The town is stretched along a single street and is about a mile long.  I got settled in to my hostel and went for a walk to find Brian and Kristin at their place, Casa Zen.  That place is off the hook, it's Asian themed and is pretty new, a really nice cabana to lounge in, hammocks, sushi restaurant, yoga classes, the works. Estella, you would love it. It started raining so we decided to just hang tight till it let up and made some rum 'n cokes. Then we walked down the road and checked out a different hostel that's nicer than my place in that it has glass in its windows to keep out bugs.  The guy there was super nice, I'll be moving that way in the morning.  We walked a little further and turned off to go see the beach. The waves were huge because of the storm swell, the views were ominous with the thunder rolling around us.

The water was unbelieveably warm, I would guess 85 degrees.  Hard to imagine this is the same freezing ocean we have in California.  For dinner we went to a burger joint with our new Canadian friend we met on the beach.  Walking home in the drizzle was refreshing.  Tomorrow is surf day #1. Can't wait to get in that giant hot tub of an ocean and ride.