La Playa

In addition to apprenticing in a restaurant and brushing up on my Spanish (I took four years of it in high school and am currently working my way through The Complete Idiots Guide to Learning Spanish by Gail Stein), I have been spending quality time in my hammock and on the beach... Which is about the same distance from my cabina as my office was from my apartment in New York... (That is to say about a 4-5 minute walk)

Here are some pictures of the path to the beach (I took these around midday):

Here are some pics of the path to the beach and the beach near sunset:

OH! And in other news... I bought a surf board on Saturday and went surfing for the first time since I have been back! Nothing too crazy - just played in the whitewater a bit. My board is an 8 foot 2 longboard made by Carton, a Costa Rican surfboard company based in Jaco. I have named it Jack. Pictures to come...