Here’s part two of the video from the waterfall video from last Saturday (Nov. 22, 2008). This is the view from the top of the falls taken a few minutes after the first video. I’ve since learned that the waterfalls are named El Chorro (and the adjacent beach is called Cocolito).
Here’s the direct link to this waterfalls video (sometimes the embed codes don’t work); be sure to notice that under the right-hand side of the video you can “watch in high quality”.
Posted in Costa Rica 2008
Tagged beach, Costa Rica, El Chorro, Montezuma, Pacific Ocean, Waterfall, Waterfalls
Haven’t been doing much the last few days. I’ve been experiencing the other Montezuma so I’ve been under the weather. Here’s a few recent photos all from the Montezuma, Costa Rica area.
One of the water outlets to the Pacific Ocean.
I always like trying to catch photos of birds flying, but I’m never close enough.
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Tagged beach, Costa Rica, El Chorro, Montezuma, ocean, Pacific Ocean, photos, Waterfall, Weather
So here’s a photo of me at the waterfalls North of Montezuma, Costa Rica. The walk to get there is to walk along the beach of the ocean (maybe this is technically the bay?). I’ve since learned that the waterfalls are named El Chorro (and the adjacent beach is called Cocolito).
This was a long hike, about 2 hours each way with stops, snacks and quick swims I was gone about 6 hours. I brought seven bottles of water, gatorade and Fresca (the one bottle of Fresca for when I ate my sandwich) and drank six-and-a-half bottles so I judged that pretty good. Although I cheated and when I was 20 minutes from the hotel I stopped at the Ylang Ylang on the beach and got a mucho frio (very cold) Coca-Cola in a glass bottle (the rest of my drinks were pretty was pretty hot by then) so I still had a 1/2 water and a gatorade; Ylang-Ylang is the last stop on the beach so don’t expect much after that. So my bag kept getting lighter but it felt like it was getting heavier.
This is a 20-30 foot waterfall there is a waterfall/stream you get to early (after 45 minutes?) that some people think is “the” waterfall but it is not the waterfalls you see here. Here’s the longitude and latitude that my GPS gave me when I got to the final destination this was about 6 km from the center of town as the bird flies (I’m sure I walked farther since it wasn’t close to a direct route, plus it was on the sand and rocks). It’s N 9°41.157′ and W 085°01.530′ or at least that’s what it was about 100 meters away in the shade when I made the marker on my GPS (please note that this is the corrected coordinates as referred to in the comments).
Here’s some video that I shot when I got there.
And in case the above embedded video doesn’t work, here’s the direct link to this El Chorro Waterfalls video; be sure to notice that under the right-hand side of the video you can “watch in high quality”. Continue reading
Posted in Costa Rica 2008
Tagged beach, Cocolito, Costa Rica, El Chorro, Montezuma, photo friday, Waterfall, Waterfalls
The power has glitched off and on the last few days. Just for a few seconds generally but it’s enough to turn off the A/C unit in my hotel which kept waking me all night long when it kept kicking off…
Today we lost it for a few hours but it eventually came back on. But it’s always a worry that it might not come back on (most hotels with A/C don’t have windows that will open) that means no A/C and no hot water (it’s electric).
Boring post, but that was out of the ordinary part of today…
I hiked up to the waterfalls too! It’s such a nice view!! But since I do this almost every day it’s really not out of the ordinary any more :)
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Tagged Costa Rica, Montezuma, power, power loss, Waterfall, Waterfalls
Here’s a video of the fire dancing from the other day in Montezuma.
And (of course) the direct YouTube link.
Posted in Costa Rica 2008
Tagged Costa Rica, Dance, Fire, Fire Dance, fire dancing, Montezuma, Montezuma Film Festival, street performing, videos
So I’d really been looking forward to the fire dancing in Montezuma. I haven’t seen it done as much the last few trips and I knew it was on the schedule as entertainment for the Film Festival. It wasn’t the local group that I’ve seen do street shows before but they were excellent. Most had some kind of costumes or makeup on which added to the whole effect.
It’s hard to capture but I think these turned out pretty good. A few of the ones in the woman in costume I pulled from video I took so the quality might not be so great but I wanted you to see…
I only show a few photos here, the other dozen are here (including larger versions of them all) or click for the fire dancing slideshow (same photos).
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Tagged Costa Rica, Dance, Fire, Fire Dance, fire dancing, Montezuma, Montezuma Film Festival, photos, street performing
If your display is set to 1024×768 or larger you should be seeing my new background. That’s a shot from Montezuma up by the waterfalls, I hike up there every day that I can when I’m in town….
Does it fit okay? Does it load to slow? It’s the first time using an image, so please give me feedback!
Tagged blogging, Costa Rica, Montezuma, Waterfall, Waterfalls
Weather great!
Internet is extra awful (I guess an actually satellite the good places use are broken). So it’s computer labs sharing two dial-in phone lines.
Don’t expect much in terms of posts and photos the next few days. But scroll down because I did get a few things posted in the last 24 hours…
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