Here we are, on the famous North Shore!! I cant believe we are really here, after a couple of nights in busy Waikiki, we were pleased to pick up a hire car and head across the island. To drive from one side to the other takes just under an hour as the islands pretty small. First things first, we found a pricey backpackers to stay in, along with 3 rats living in the cooker mmm nice. We headed into Haleiwa and bought ourselves a couple of brand spanking new surfboa...

here we are, western civilisation at longlast. after three planes, nearly losing our bags and nearly, with 2 mins to spare, missing our plane, we arrived tired but intact! we are staying right in the centre of waikiki amongst too many expensive hotels and shops! 4 quid for a jar of peanut butter. this morning we climbed the famous diamond head and saw amazing views of the south shore and waikiki. its exactly as we expected, with business men going to work in hawa...

Well, we left Bocas & made the trip back to Costa Rica. To get there we took a really exciting speed boat ride from Bocas to Changuinola. The boat went up a rather tight river speeding through, going past all these falling down wooden shacks which people were living in, and past little dug out boats carrying bananas , i felt like James Bond!! We got to Puerto Viejo, which although a little touresty, was really nice. Whilst there we had a little swim in the sh...

Its not me, its you. It was fun whilst it lasted, but its just time to move on. Yep, us and Central America are over. We have had a good time, but are definatlely ready to be moving on. We are still in Bocas, and have exhausted the place, and so are going back to Costa Rica to Puerto Viejo on the caribbean coast tomorrow in a last ditched attempt to sell our surfboards before flying out on wednesday. The promised swell kept teasing and moving back on the char...

Just a quick update. Yesterday we took a boat taxi to the nearby island of Ceranaro, and had a little walk around. The water is so unbelievably clear, and even warmer than the pacific was! Today we took a tour and went on a boat ride to do some wildlife spotting! We started by cruising through the mangroves like Gentle Ben and seeing these dolphins leap out of the water as our driver kept going around in circles to please the dolphins! After, we did some sn...