During our stay at Bosque del Cabo we hiked many of the trails surrounding the resorts. The sites and sounds we discovered were just amazing.
Each day we hiked at least 2 trails. One of my favorites was the Golfo Dulce Trail which was 1.8 miles taking you from the top of the mountain down to the beach and pacific ocean. The Osa Peninsula is one of the few places that you can find all 4 species of monkeys living together. Along this trail we saw all 4, the howler,
spider, capuchin, and squirrel monkey at the same time in the trees around the trail. It really was something to see. The spider monkeys are just crazy.
When we reached the beach we were on the beach of Pan Dulce. The beach was beautiful. As we were walking along it looked as if the beach was moving in this one area. As we got closer it was filled with thousands of hermit crabs moving very slowly along. It was pretty cool to see. There were other kinds of crabs going in and out of their holes. The trees around the beach were full of capuchin monkeys.
We spent some time at the beach swimming and surfing. We met a local who helped us with our surfing. The kids did really well. I got up a couple of times but not for too long. It was a wonderful experience to be surfing in Pan Dulce.
Later in the day as we relaxed at our Casa talking about the day’s events we were treated to a conversation between two toucans. One was in the tree next to our patio and the other in a tree on the opposite side. It was just amazing to be listening to this.
Another cool thing we did was go on a sunset kayak trip. We took that long drive back to the town of Puerto Jimenez where we met Josh our guide for the trip. He was an interesting guy who was very knowledgeable about the flowers and plants of Costa Rica. We had a short tour of the plants around his house while we had some of his homemade tea which was good. Than it was off to Kayak in the Guelfo Dulea. It was so peaceful and beautiful to be out in the water as the sun set for the day. Even the dolphins were out swimming next to our kayaks. It was a perfect end of a day.
For dinner we went to town and had dinner at Soda Carolina Restaurante. It was pretty interesting as no one spoke English, we spoke very little Spanish and the menu was all in Spanish. We ordered the best we could and it was really good. The total for all 4 of us was only $26.00. We got a chance to walk around the town of Puerto Jimenez and it’s a pretty nice little town. It was a fun time.
Next stop Tent Camp. What an adventure that was.
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