Manuel Antonio National Park, Costa Rica

A boat in front of Manuel Antonio National Park.

So the weather has been somewhat been less desireable. In the morning it's semi overcast with breaks of sun light here and there. Eventually later in mid day the clouds thicken and you can see the rain come. Every day, with out fail, this has been the routine. This was our first day at the beach and was hoping it would be slightly different.

This is the entrance to Manuel Antonio National Park. We were conned into paying full price when we could have gotten student discounts if we had only walked in a bit further to the ranger station.

Stephanie looking out to sea.

We ate lunch on the beach and had to run away when high tide almost swept away everything we were eating.

Trekking through the jungle. [Picture credit: Steph]

Walking in the sand barefoot was nice, but at somepoint we had to put on our sandals to hike around in the rain forest. We didn't get to see too much since the park closed at four and we got there at two. Even though it started to rain on us we trekked on. The majority of the rain was shielded from the canopy of the rain forest, but we were still sweaty and covered with dirt. So we hung up our gear and jumped in the ocean in the rain.