A couple of weekends ago, I took a trip with some of the other teachers to a beach town called Sámara. It was an absolutely beautiful beach that I highly recommend to anyone who comes to Costa Rica. We took private transportation down (so we crammed 11 staff members in a van and drove down to the beach). We relaxed on the beach, played beersbie, a horseshoe-like game where you throw a frisbee at a stick that has a beer can on it.
The bittersweet part of the trip was that Bob and Linda, who were 2 volunteers at the school returned to the US at the end of their trip. They are a married couple who celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary with us and stayed for a couple of months.
The highlight of the trip for me was that we rented kayaks and snorkeling equipment and kayaked out to an island near the beach and snorkeled around for a while. I´ve been told that sometimes you can see different types of rays there, and that my one co-worker saw a turtle the last time she went to this island. Unfortunately, we did not see either of those, but it was a lot of fun to see lots of different fish and plants under the water that you usually cannot see. I want snorkeling to be a part of my next few beach trips, and at $10 an hour, the equipment was very cheap to rent.
I also really enjoyed that our hostel had boogie boards for us to use, and that the person working at the hostel was from Madrid, so I got to reminisce about my time in Spain.
The bittersweet part of the trip was that Bob and Linda, who were 2 volunteers at the school returned to the US at the end of their trip. They are a married couple who celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary with us and stayed for a couple of months.
The highlight of the trip for me was that we rented kayaks and snorkeling equipment and kayaked out to an island near the beach and snorkeled around for a while. I´ve been told that sometimes you can see different types of rays there, and that my one co-worker saw a turtle the last time she went to this island. Unfortunately, we did not see either of those, but it was a lot of fun to see lots of different fish and plants under the water that you usually cannot see. I want snorkeling to be a part of my next few beach trips, and at $10 an hour, the equipment was very cheap to rent.
I also really enjoyed that our hostel had boogie boards for us to use, and that the person working at the hostel was from Madrid, so I got to reminisce about my time in Spain.
