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Jaco beach!  What a great destination, and a great trip to get here.
We left HQ this morning on the bikes and climbed straight up a switch backed road that was really cool, then along a knife edge with steep drop offs on both sides, I’ll get some photos eventually……
Then we did this horribly rocky road where the rocks were the size of bowling balls and rolled just as much.  At the end there was a beautiful little swimming pool in the creek and most of us went of a dip.  I wore all my gear and yes it felt good, but my boots were water logged for the rest of the day and kind of miserable.  It was quiet hot and humid a contrast to yesterday and the fog and the mist.
Then we did a trail they call Slippy Trail and it was slick red clay, hard as a rock and slick as glass.  I did fall down once going into a creek, no harm done but the helmet camera was running and my pants and elbow were covered in the red grease so there was no hiding the fact I had fallen.  The Slippy Trail was really a hand full and there were a couple of sections we had to push the bikes.  Lets see, bright sun, high humidity and pushing dirt bikes up slick as ice trails.  Must hydrate….  Gear is ruined, our room smells like a cat litter box….
After the Slippy Trail we wound up high on the mountain to a restaurant that looked over the ocean on one side and back on the mountains on the other.  Very nice view, and good food.  Chickens ran around in the restaurant and dogs laid at our feet.
Then it was down down down to the ocean and the busy city of Jaco Beach.  A little too touristy for my taste, but hunky dory after all.
I stripped out of my sweat soaked riding gear and headed for the black sand beach.  I was able to catch several waves body surfing one wave I rode so long I had to stop because I was out of breath.  Then I rented a boogie board.  Yes, I know, the boogie board is the ATV of the ocean, but at least I can boogie where a surf board is too hard.  Quad of the sea…..   It is fun!  I caught several waves and was working on my turns so I could ride along the face of the waves before it crashed me in to the bottom.  I love playing in the water and catching waves, it’s "Hope".  I hope the next wave is better, I hope I can catch it I’m always hoping for the perfect wave.  Kind of like playing the slot machine or digging for gold, Hope is always driving you…..
I have the board for a few more rides in the morning then it’s back on the bike and back to HQ by a different route, I hope,  I don’t really need to see Slippy Trail ever again.
While on Slippy today, we got in this giant road cut, must have been 30 feet deep and just the width of a truck, it was creepy with vines and jungle growing overhead, almost like a cave.  Around a blind corner was a giant antique jungle bulldozer with huge ripper teeth in the back, we are so lucky we did not run into it cause it would have killed us all dead and not put a scratch on it.  The driver stopped and we had to claw past it on the wall but it was scary, the thing looked like some sort of dinosaur with those big gnarly teeth.  I hope the helmet camera was turned on there.
Back at the beach we sat around the pool, some of the crew got massages, I got mine in the ocean, it really pulled me in every direction.  Then we went across the street to dinner and it was prize winning!  I had the Yellow Fin Tuna, rare…….  It came with garlic shrimp and we had calamari and cevechi and strawberry smoothies, I’m stuffed to the point of sickness right now and really need to go to bed, but I know many of you are checking here for reports and I’m still kicking!
So I’ll try and write tomorrow, internet is not as easy as it was in Mexico.   Loads of laughs and good times and more to come tomorrow, I’m going to bed now.
C