Went on another adventure yesterday. We, along with Bill and Doreen from s/v Lanikai, took a bus from the town of Tambour. Tambour is the small village/resort area we are anchored off here in Bahia Ballena, Costa Rica. as an aside, and since I can't get to an internet cafe and upload more photos for a while yet, you can check out the web site of the beautiful little hotel where we had lunch the other day. IF we were anchored here when they took the photos you would see Ceilidh floating in the bay just off the hotel. The web site is www.tambortropical.com.
From Tambor, the bus took us along roads - some paved, some dirt and washboardy - to the resort town of Montezuma. Not much there except tourism. Eco resorts, small cabanas for rent, tours by car, boat, horse... you name it. Also a surfers paradise which is why we did not anchor nearby. The bus trip took about 45 minutes - passing thru one other small town named Coban, and wound around hills and valleys keeping mostly insight of the ocean shore. Wow. I love the green of the jungle and interesting plants/flowers that abound in this verdant land. Once in Montezuma we walked along the coast to the outskirt of the inhabited area, over a bridge and up into the jungle. Following a well traveled dirt path between trees and shrubs we wound along the stream bed of a small river. The howler monkeys and insects in the trees made me feel as though I was in a Tarzan movie. We'll have to work on a way to share the sounds as well as the colours with you. Before too long we came to the first small set of falls - really not more than a very pretty set of rapids. Keep in mind this is the dry season and the amount of water flowing is minimal compared to what one would see in the rainy season. Still, it was a beautiful scene with rock ledges and slopes providing gentle slides for the water to play on as it traveled down towards the town and sea.
We continued along the stream some of the time and the path where passable and in 30 min or so found the larger waterfall. It drops from about approximately 100 feet above, cascading into a deep pool about 50 feet across. (hey, one of the spanish words for waterfall is la cascada!) We jumped in and swam in the cool, clean water. Played behind and in the sparkling water as it danced into the pool, tried diving thru it and found that the waterfall pushed us flat - belly flop city. We started out on this journey at 7:30am so we were among the first visitors to the falls. As we played and splashed more and more people showed up. It think there were about 15 or so when we decided to head back to town.
Once we arrived back in Montezuma we had a lovely lunch at one of the restaurants and then caught the bus back to Tambor and Ceilidh. There are more waterfalls in the area which we might visit but this will always remain special because it was the first! Tomorrow we'll catch the bus again back to the small town of Coban. There is an ATM and grocery - just what we need and in that order. Well, time to get on with boat type tasks so all for now. Love to all
from the yin side.
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