Thursday, January 12, 2017

Report #12 Puntarenas, Costa Rica January 11, 2017 Wednesday Sunny & 85 degrees Part #3 Of 3 68 Pictures


A female frigate

 

You can see the town layout from the ship

 

Volcano de los Amsterdam – good grief

 

Hunting overhead

 

Watch you head

 

The Cathedral steeple in the center

 

Stadium lights

 

Still warm at sail away

 

Center of town

 

End of the spit

 

Dark sand, but clean beach

 

Mountains in the clouds – it did rain up there, we heard

 

A few beach-goers

 

Ships in the bay

 

Shoreline of the bay

 

Leaving Puntarenas

 

Dropping the lines

 

There they go

 

Vendors still there

 

The long pier can house two cruise ships

 

Sailing away

 

Pelicans on the buoy

 

Adult pelican above the waves

 

Sun was going down

 

Young pelican

 

A nice home

 

Other end of town

 

Many pelicans means lots of fish

 

Shoreside buildings

 

Two birds

 

Suddenly diving

 

A wonderful sunset

 

A few scattered clouds

 

There's the moon

 

Is that neat or what?

 

Never saw the sun set here

 

Was worth staying later

 

Here comes the moon

 

There goes the sun

 

Pelicans flying alongside

 

End of the day

 

We will be back in May

 

Leaving the bay

 

Time to go

 

End of a hot day

 

Pelicans in our wake

 

No rain today

 

It did rain in the mountains

 

Last of the rays

 

Well, almost

 

Juvenile pelican

 

Costa Rican skyline

 

Sail away festivities

 

Party animal……Miss Martha

 

Finally cooled off

 

Almost full moon

 

Costa Rica – a nice place to visit

 

Puerto Caldera, the working dock

 

Party is over

 

Dinnertime soon

 

The birds never quit

 

Followed us until dark

 

Just a few feet above the water

 

Flocks of four

 

Or more

 

They must eat well

 

Daylight is gone

 

Almost full moon