After a night of tumultuous rain it stopped around 5 so we got up, showered and went to the jetty to await the 0545 trip. Several others joined us but just before the witching hour the heavens opened again - clearly Juan Carlos, our guide, had inside information as he never showed obviously knowing it would be too wet to explore the canals of Tortuguero!. As we were up we all made our way back to the restaurant and sat and drank copious amounts of coffee until br...

We arrived in San Jose, Costa Rica via a bitterly cold Miami yesterday (22/12/12). A cold front passing over Florida meant the hot weather of the previous few days had been replaced by cold breezy conditions and at 0700 am, when we left, the temperature in Fort Lauderdale was in the 40's. In San Jose temperatures were thankfully back into the 70s - so after settling into our hotel, the Fleur de Lys, we walked into the city and had a coffee and cake followed a wh...