So we set off in Terry the wonder jeep to find Nosara village and an ATM. I took out a bunch of colones (rather worryingly the machine told me I have insufficient funds to take more than I did, but that's just not true).
We decided to follow up a recommendation from some Americans we met yesterday, who made us feel very jealous with stories of visiting Madagascar and the Galapagos, and also India where they saw wild tigers. Almost makes you want to be rich and retired. Almost. Anyway, they recommended we try the food at Rancho Tico. So that's what we did, and it was really good. Two cokes and two plates of casado: un con pollo y un con chuleta. Delicious! Plus the guy serving us was great at his job and made us feel very welcome.
The restaurant is basically a wooden dance hall with a very tall roof and heavily varnished wooden furniture. Despite the heat of the day it was really nice inside this cavernous space enjoying good local food. Amber even spotted a few small bats hanging down from the roof.
After lunch we decided to head back to the hotel and do Internet stuff before heading down to the beach to watch the pelicans fishing.
I had a horrific lizard related accident. I was running barefoot from the room to the pool and an anole ran right out in front of me just as I put my right foot down. He scampered under a bush afterwards, so I thought I'd just stunned him (he was still breathing), but when I came back the ants were swarming all over his dead body. Not good.
For some reason I thought it would be quicker to drive to the river mouth to watch the pelicans, so a 5 minute walk took us 10 minutes in the car! Common sense 1, Martin 0. Amber found it suitably funny.
The pelicans are great fun. Such big clumsy birds, but their aerial acrobatics when they plunge themselves into the surf are really fantasic. It like they transform into streamlined torpedoes, just for a second they make even the terns (who were also fishing) look inelegent. We must have used a quarter of my camera's memory card trying to get perfect photos of them diving.
We had cocktails on the terrace whilst watching the sunset and then had a fantastic meal at our own outdoors, cadlelit table. All very romantic and the best steak I've ever had.
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