.Today the kids and I went to a "local" beach with our Costa Rican neighbors. Wow. You drive your car down a very crazy dirt road right on to the beach. We parked our car on the sand and set up right outside our trunk! Very different. I didn't take any pics because it started raining shortly after we got there and rained the whole time. The kids didn't mind, boogey boarding and playing for over 2 hours in the rain.
Did we mention that there are A LOT of crazy looking bugs and insects here. Here are just a few pics....
We thought this was a tarantula, but our local neighbors told us they only have those on the other coast. He said that this was a relative of the tarantula and it usually kills horses with one bite. We found it in our pool, floating in a kids' toy boat.
This shows how close we were to it! Stace picked up the boat and set it free, believe it or not. At one point it went for his hand.
On our road trip this grasshopper was outside our room. It was the size of my hand. Brody was trying to catch/chase it. We found out later that those spikes on it's back legs can cut you. Ouch.
We saiw this spider on our road trip too. It was near the patio where we ate breakfast.We have seen so many more, just not pics to show. In our hotel in Uvita, when we were being shown to our room we saw a spider that was so big that I it didn't look real or alive. When we asked the girl who worked there if there were lots that big she said..."you are in the jungle"! We felt pretty touristy.
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