Costa Rica Day Two - June 11

Well, we're simply loving it here in Costa Rica. We're on this escape to celebrate our tenth year of marriage - we started our relationship in the "great outdoors" and realize its value in providing us with an amazing environment for adventure & relationship-building!


Great people, great food, and amazing adventure travel. Today was our first official excursion with Costa Rica Rios via inflateable kayaks on a class II/III river called the Pejibaye. I admit to missing my hardshell kayak but had a positive attitude in trying something different.

The water was warm, the scenery simply gorgeous, and yes the food was unbelievable. Our guides (pictured above & below) Pablo and Marco layed out the spread of Costa Rican cuisine on one of the kayaks we used! We definitely were spoiled by all the amazing fruit we enjoyed: pineapple of course being our favorite, followed by mango!

It was very comfortable weather wise - around 22-24 degrees Celsius or so, sunny with the occasional clouds, jungle treed mountains surrounding us and whitewater rapids that often are continuous. Nothing overly challenging for a seasoned kayaker like myself but it was still fun - more relaxing/soothing than thrilling (we'll wait for the bigger whitewater stuff later this week).


Here's Wendy running a significant rapid - lots of fun! All in all, a great day to get our feet wet literally. Below is a shot of our new friends Jack & Rebecca running a set of rapids in a tandem kayak!


Tomorrow we mtn bike down a volcano! More details & pics to follow. Got to love free hi-speed internet! The shot below (taken by Wendy) is at a local Cafe (Azul) which serves espressos - which Jack & I took advantage of a few times on the trip.