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Preparing for Sunday the 15th

All the Schools Prepare for Independence Day Parade

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Escuela Central, the large main Public Elementary School’s band practices for Sunday’s parade. 

The high school bands have been practicing too with the same monotonous drum beat that it seems all the bands use. Note in the photo above two interesting facts that tell about the culture or a small town:   (1) The band director is almost a kid himself, first job out of college as a low-paid music teacher in rural elementary school.  (2) All the girls play a xylophone and all the boys play a drum, either snare or bass.   🙂   I regret that I will miss this year’s parade, but I’ve seen it several times!   🙂

My Friday Night Treat

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Every Friday night I have my one steak a week at Parrillada Androvetto which has a big platform deck overlooking the surrounding hills and the Public Cemetery above. Tonight the clouds hung low on the hills, but still no rain. Yes, it is now a semi-drought for rainy season. Met a nice young couple at Androvetto from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. I like the “Small World” effect of living in Costa Rica!

Whale-Watching Starts Sunday

Sunday morning I fly to Palmar Sur and check in to the Cristal Ballena Hotel  in Uvita for the week where I will go Whale Watching on Monday for the first time in my long life and if satisfied (get whale photos) I will use the rest of the week to photo birds and a very special Nauyaca Waterfalls one day.  I drove through Uvita on the 2014 Relocation Tour and have flown over its famous “Whale’s Tail Beach” in my photo below from a Carcovado trip.

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My hotel is in this little South Pacific town and the whaling boat will probably deport at Dominical, a nearby larger town. The waterfall is up the mountain & birds everywhere!

🙂

Retired in Costa Rica

¡Pura Vida!

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Whale’s Tail

Use your imagination. This bit of beach on the South Pacific Coast
near Uvita is famously called “The Whale’s Tail.” Sorta looks like it!
And this is the area where you can go Whale Watching in August/September.

And other people have better photos than this one I made from our little plane to Drake Bay.

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What Makes Costa Rica Appealing?

BEAUTIFUL VIEWS
Of the Pacific from an available lot at Partasol,
An Ecological Development we visited today.
BEAUTIFUL BEACHES
Playa Hermosa on the Pacific Coast South
ACTIVE NEIGHBORS
A surfer at Manuel Antonio Beach today
COLORFUL NEIGHBORS
This morning’s Toucan is so much better than last night’s I think!

INTRIGUING NEIGHBORS
White-faced Capuchin Monkey

And all of this was just today’s visits and photos!
There are 13 of us on the Pacific tour with two more joining us for the Central Valley Tour and Seminar. We are all seriously considering a move to Costa Rica, mostly for retirement. A fun group and great food!
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Chestnut-Mandibled Toucan

A good first day of the tour and over 500 photos coming out of San Jose, a bicycle race, soccer match, Talamanca Mountains, several towns and beaches along the South end of Costa Rica’s Pacific Coast, plus the beautiful grounds of the Villas Rio Mar. But on my late afternoon walk along the Baru River I saw several flocks of Great White Herons flying back to roost, then best of all a huge flock of Chestnut-Mandibled Toucans stopping for snacks in some hotel trees on their way to their roosts. They call it the Toucan Flyover which happens here every evening. They are in the tops of very high trees, but I got one or two usable photos and this is one. Maybe tomorrow I will post a beach photo,