Puntarenas One Day

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Puntarenas

Bus Station

Colors

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Fred and Tico watch World Cup
Costa Rica has now won two games in the Soccer World Cup and this town has gone crazy; cars are wearing flags over the hood, honkking horns, people are all dressed in the colors of the country, and everyone is happy. We enjoyed the game ourselves with some loud and enthusiastic supporters at Puerto Azul Marina

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Judy at the game

Fruit Seller

Flower Seller

Bar

Man in Doorway

Puntarenas Estuary and Manuel Antonio Park

Puntarenas Estuary

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Puerto Azul Marina and Puntarenas Estuary

Puerto Azul Marina

Puntarenas Estuary

American Crocodile
Every time we went out on the water in the dingy we saw these guys. About 3-4 meters long, silently gliding along, looking at us. Once we drove the dingy about 10ft away from one and didn't see it until we were past. He did not submerge until we turned the boat around to go back towards him. One site in the Internet it says they do not attack people or boats. Another site says they do. Who should we believe?

Tarzan III

Croc on the move
This one was on a sandbar and got up on a high walk and pranced down to the water as we approached.

Sunset and boats

Gulf of Nicoya

Manuel Antonio National Park

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Howler Monkey

Three Toed Sloth

Racoon

American Crocodile
This guy scared about 100 summer break college kids out of the water.

Sloth

Monkeys

Monkey

Monkey Family

Costa Rica

Hanging out in Puerto Azul

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Puerto Azul

Lots of shade needed in Puntarenas

Neighbor's worker washed their boat daily, I need him.

Morning Swim at Puerto Azul

Goggles

View across the river, it is quiet here

Mangled Impeller

It's not that we didn't fix anything, this impeller, for example, while amazingly still pumping plenty of water to keep things cool in the engine department, wouldn't have done so for long, so we replaced it. After we used our last spare impeller replacing this one a really helpful guy named Paul Jimenez at Encargado Tienda, the marine hardware store we found, got us two new spares for a good price and delivered them! We also repaired a leak at the mast partners, fixed a broken oar, and basically have found one or more boat project to do each day. And that is in addition to swimming in the morning, going to town on the bus and searching out a good bar for happy hour.

Tough life.

Sailing to Puntarenas

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Clouds over Puntarenas

Puntarenas

Puntarenas