So access is really sparse and slow

So I'm throwing up a few more posts while I've got access, we're heading north (after we check out the Sand Castle Beachfest) on the Nicoya Peninsula and I'm not sure how access will be after today...

The place I'm at now is in Cabano, and they've got pretty good speed but it's really busy so it's still not super.

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Check out my Speedos!

So i understand how the locals do it, they've got feet like a hobbits on the bottom. But it's the tourists that I don't understand how they walk around without shoes on. Even in the rocky areas they don't wear shoes but sometimes I see them hobbling along.

I need my beach shoes to get around, rocks and cement and stuff don't work for me. I had to get some fancier ones this trip since some of the other ones I get don't work when jumping off at waterfalls; it's no fun to be up in the mountains and loose a shoe. These are a little comfier than some of the other ones I've had in the past (and they haven't fallen off yet).

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We didn't make it as far as we thought.

Well, we didn't make it as far as we hoped. We made it to the sand castle festival in Manzanillo (that's a different story) and tried to head up to Coyote (because someone mentioned it as a close town we could get to). We followed the "maps" and we were going the way that we thought and we eventually hit a stream that was a good 30 meters across and we probably could have crossed it, except that they was no road on the other side of the stream (the photos are of the stream)! So we tried a few other roads but no mater what roads we headed north-ish on, we couldn't get much father. So we back tracked to Santa Teresa and grabbed the first hotel with A/C and crashed there for the night

Later, we did find out that the stream was the correct way to go. But I'm not sure our little 4x4 would have made it (I think so) but we didn't even know which way to go.

We did get to catch a sunset here, Montezuma is on the other side of the peninsula so that's the first on this trip. It was really nice even thought there was cloud cover over parts of it.

Today we're going to head back north, but the very very long way around. So we probably won't get near Coyote (we'll end up way north of it) and see what's way north of it.

Later: I did find out that was the correct way. But I'm still not sure if it would have been east or west. And you're supposed to do it at low tide. Maybe next time.

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