Tamagringo

Tamarindo...otherwise known as Tamagringo to the locals. We are here for 2 days and so far the surf has been rough. I have a big scrape on my back to prove it!! The waves are strong due to storms and the area has many rocks under the water that make it difficult to wade without tripping over something. This is very much of a tourist town. The men believe that the women would all like to come home with them! Last evening we went out to dinner and a restaurant that we love! Rice, beans, salad with lime, fried bananas (or babana's when you read the menu) and an amazing piece of freshly caught fish!! It is almost as macrobiotic as you can get down here!! YUM...I am craving lunch as I type this!!

Later in the evening, Amy and I went out and had drinks and thought we would dance, but it was not salsa night....it was club music night. Not so much our style. We swung by the 4th of July celebration where they held a hot dog eating contest and they had beer pong set up...again, not so much our style. I know it was America's birthday yesterday, but we came down here for Central American culture, NOT a hot dog eating contest!

This area seems to have many more bird species than I saw in Monteverde...and much easier to spot. We have many orange-chinned parakeets and well as larger parrots. Black vultures, Magnificent Frigate-Birds, Ruddy Turnstones, Terns, Pelicans, Motmots. OK....off to the beach!! Sun is finally out!