A miracle! I woke up the next day and for the first time since being on our Costa Rica vacation, my back didn’t hurt. I could feel it a bit, but it was not painful, like it had been the preceding weeks.
The Cabinas Atlantida had free breakfasts, which we took advantage of. While we were eating our eggs, we encountered several critters. A toucan with a deformed beak came flying down to our table to beg for food as we ate. We were also visited by a pet dog and pet monkey.
We found that Cahuita was kind of a bust. During our long hike to the beach, The only “wildlife” we saw on the trail we took was a Blue Morpho butterfly, a few lizards, and some crabs. We discovered that wasn’t really a swimming beach, because the water was so shallow, and the snorkeling wasn’t even as good as what it was in Manuel Antonio Park.
Even after I waded out one hundred meters, the water was still only up to my knees. While snorkeling, I saw very little living coral, mostly just broken pieces. I did spot a few big black sea urchins sporting eight inch spikes, and some small fish, but nothing spectacular.
On the way back from our “swim” we stopped at a little restaurant beside the park. I had an egg sandwich while mywife went for the cheese sandwich. There were a lot of very strange sandwich combinations on their menu, like a Tuna, tomato, jam, and onion sandwich. Maybe those were just individual sandwiches, but the menu seemed to suggest it was just one kind.
That night we ate at the little restaurant just down the road. We had rice and chicken. I don’t know how those places can exist. We were the only customers there and our meal cost us $11.00 US. Hopefully, it was just a bad night for them, they sure didn’t seem to be making enough money to keep the place viable.
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