it is still very hot, but we are now in the mountains so it is a little cooler
still at the dock in Costa rica
Well after our awful day yesterday, we returned to the port to try again and recover the trucks. It took another 1.5hrs to finish the paperwork from yesterday, a further hour to have everything photocopied and get the place a little hotter !!! then we were taken by car because I am still in my flip flops!!! To get the trucks. we then, of course, had to be fumigated with a very silly little spray - just enough to dirty the windows, but I could not see that any more use was done. After this we were then quickly out of the dock. By which time it is roasting. What made all this worth while was the fact that the trucks were in perfect condition, we paid no bribes were not even asked, yes it had taken a long time but in my opinion worth every minute.
Then back to the hotel, put all the stuff back in the cab - radio, CB, etc. Took the bars from the windows; had a shower and lunch in the hotel and then back on the road again.
We are heading for the Laguna del Arenal and the Volcano Arenal we hope again to be able to see a volcano spitting fire and brimstone.
We turn east from the Pan-American highway towards the town of Tilaran, this is a small town a ranching center but we are to early for the rodeo I am very sorry to say, (it is very hot). We continue making our way up the Tilaran Mountains and we have a lovely cool breeze. once we reach the lake the temperature is a lot more pleasant, the lake is very pretty with the volcano at its end; now everything is much more jungle - the flowers are very beautiful and different; also there are a lot more birds - most of them are very colourful. We continued around the lake until we came to the small village where the German Bakery is, here I had apple strudel and ice cream lovely!! Les asked where we could park for the night and we were sent down a couple of short dirt roads to the lakeside, when it was dark we should have been able to see the volcano spitting red fire. But with low cloud we could see nothing!!! (Just our luck) this night we had torrential rain, my roof windows were open - I knew it was raining when I got wet!!
Following day we continued around the lake; the ride is very beautiful and interesting. We are going to the Arenal Observatory, this is a hotel with some wonderful jungle trails and with a great view of the volcano, we had a lovely walk through the jungle to a most beautiful water fall, the flowers and birds are magnificent, there is a feeding table on this we saw a red, blue, green birds and a brown black with yellow in its tail, orange beak and blue around its eye - all these colours are very bright and it was all at the same time.. awesome. we had a wonderful afternoon. In the evening we went to watch the fire spitting from the volcano but with low cloud, rain we could not see anything. !!!
We had rain again this night *my windows were shut*
tried agian for a view of the red fire but no luck!!! we will just have to wait and see if the weather changes ......................
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