Costa Rica - Day 10

We walked the full length of Playa Flamingo this morning. It takes almost half an hour to get to the far end. Then we confirmed our sunset cruise for this afternoon. We made a point of not going swimming this morning but walked instead to the Farmacia and Art Shops up the way for some shopping.

Lunch was ordered at the bar but taken to our room while we watched football and rested.

Early afternoon we met Damon and Michelle in the lobby, and caught our transport to Marina de Flamingo. We joined one other couple, Scott and Valerie, and took a dingy out to the Lazy Lizard. The 'Lizard is a small catamaran.

They served up some rum punch, dropped a couple of lines in the water, and sailed up the coast. We spent an hour and a half snorkling around the rocks. The rocks look totally barren compared to a coral reef but we saw dozens of different types of fish including electric blue damsels, long silver needle fish and a morey eel. Luis, our dive guide, caught porcupine fish, puffer fish, starfish (bright purple) and a baby octopus for us to see up close and hold.

After the snorkling we had sandwiches, fresh fruit, chips and black beans. Then sailed around watching the sunset. We came across a pair of mating sea turtles. Each of the guys pulled in a fish. We only kept the first mackrel; which they cut up for sushi.

It was already dark when we got back to the hotel but we were still in our bathing suits so we went swimming in the pool. Dinner was in the restaurant followed by dancing in the lounge. It was a good way to end the trip.