After a fun day at the beach we stayed at a place that felt like the middle of the jungle even though it was minutes from the water. We saw some crazy insects! (too many to post) We continued our adventure to Dominical the next day. Almost ended with a bang...literally. Read below.
Katie had misplaced our room and went looking for it. This is what she found instead. It is a turkey vulture which we see soaring overhead daily, but we don't normally see them fanning their wings, a few feet away. She ran to get us, so excited, and it just sat there while we took pics and observed.
These fan palms were all over the hotel grounds. This is one of the smallest ones.
Leaving the hotel we drove through a river. Stace was the little kid on this one!
We finally found Dominical. The frontage street runs right next to the ocean (see pic) and between lots of trees, sometimes you barely fit. *****STORY*****
In town we stopped to eat at a very happening place, filled with young surfers, random locals, etc.. We saw the police but thought nothing of it. We had just sat down to look at the menu when a young guy comes up to me, taps my shoulder and says "there is a guy next door who is kinda crazy, he has a gun and says he is going to kill everyone. The police are there, but I thought that you may not want to have your kids here." It took a minute or 2 for the reality to set in (At first I couldn't even understand what he was talking about), but we got out of there pretty quickly. By the time we got to our car even the local waitress had fled the premise. WOW! Not what we had expected in a very small town well-known and popular with American surfers.
Moments after our crazy guy experience we found these adorable coatimundis. There was a fruit stand as you left town. We saw one coatimundi and immediately pulled over. The fruitstand owner fed it a banana and the next thing you know they whole gang came out.
Alex hand-feeding them.
Katie getting licked.
At that fruitstand we discovered a new fruit. The American nickname is "sucky-fruit". It looks slightly like a prickly strawberry. I peel back the red part to see a bit white ball that you "suck out". Thus the name.
Overall, the trip was pretty amazing (aside from the near-death experience)!
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