Well, I tried ...

Greetings all from the Yang side.

Spent over an hour today trying to upload photos and another posting to this blog. But photos were taking 10 minutes each if they worked at all. Only one got loaded in all that time. Pages were taking 5 minutes to refresh if they could. Other sites (google, yahoo, banking, etc) were working relatively well, but rather than get more frustrated I gave up and went outside to look a two beautiful red macaws in the trees. Red was just one of the many colors ... just too beautiful. How can a computer and the internet compare? Regained balance just looking up at them.

Then went back in with the hammer ...

We're going on a tour tomorrow to a huge mangrove forest that we'll get to kayak through. Do you all remember the incredibly colored frogs that Hope gave out as gifts? They have a 'Poison Dart Frog Tour' here where apparently we'd get to see the real things. We're going to ask. How could we not?

We did manage to do our good deed for the week by 'saving' a couple of kayakers whose plastic sit-on-top kayak was sinking near us. They were on their honeymoon from Chicago. We took them back to their lodge in our dinghy after getting them aboard and rested and sort of dried off.

One new feature in our cruising life is that we're regularly using the chairs Hope got in the US to sit on the foredeck and watch the sun go down and the stars come out with our evening drinks. We're calling it drinks on the Lido Deck using a joke Hope's daughters created when the visited a year ago in Zihuatanejo. The best part is having the most intoxicating perfume drift over us sometimes from the flowers in one part of the jungle.

So we're still enjoying the good life and especially Costa Rica. Even though we had to skip the northernmost part due to the Papagayo winds. We'll rethink this blog thing because the internet connections where we're going (and where we've been) just haven't been up to the task. We'll keep posting here, just not many pictures.

And to catch up on a few stop-overs for http://maps.google.com

Bahia Drake: 08.697167N ,083.668400W (national parks all around)
Bahia Heradura: 09.642750N, 084.657750W (big resort & mega yachts with helicopters)
Bahia Ballena: 09.717567N, 085.011767W (waterfalls & howler monkeys)
Isla Muertos: 09.886183N, 084.928550W (hiding out from Papagayo winds)
Isla Cedros: 09.897150N, 084.870317W (where we fouled our chain with an unmarked net)
Islas Tortugas: 09.775993N, 084.895683W (great water, hundreds of tourists, no protection)
Playas del Coco: 10.558650N, 085.695583W (port of entry into Costa Rica, nice resort)
San Juan del Sur: 11.256350N, 085.879200W (water taxi, lots of backpackers)
Puerto Sandino: 12.182600N, 086.785683W (moorings, 12-foot dock at night ... look inland)
Puesta del Sol: 12.625100N, 087.342100W (nice marina, first stop after Mexico)

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