Curu

Our group left the relative comfort of Mastatal for the beach! This time we went to Curu, a private reserve located on the coast. The reserve is privately owned and normally gets flooded by tourists, but our group was the only group when we arrived.

 

We had the entire beach to ourselves! The water was warm, but much cooler than in Dominical, and much more peaceful. Since we arrived in the evening, aka feeding time for the sharks, we weren't able to swim right away.

The bugs were horrible, and the food was pretty wrong too, but it was still a cool place.

 

We went snorkeling, which was amazing, and played soccer on the beach. It was really hot during the day, but we lucked out with an intense rain storm on our second night. Sleeping was pretty hard, since bugs liked to crawl everywhere and on everything...ugh. Not my favorite part, but I'm a pretty heavy sleeper. It didn't bug me (ha ha) as much as some people.

 

We also got to see monkeys. The woman who runs the reserve feeds them, which is not exactly ideal, and it was an intense experience. I took some videos, and I'll try to post them tomorrow.

 

The other cool wildlife sightings were on the beach. In the morning after the storm, the beach was literally coated with crabs. Brown crabs, orange crabs and hermit crabs. I walked down the beach alone, and watched them scurry from my feet. It was amazing. And a little intense, there were so many of them!