{"id":748,"date":"2014-02-09T19:04:14","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T00:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wherearemomanddad.com\/?page_id=748"},"modified":"2017-11-08T16:37:04","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T21:37:04","slug":"costa-rica-trip-to-the-osa-2014","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wherearemomanddad.com\/?page_id=748","title":{"rendered":"2014 Costa Rica Trip to the Osa"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>My surf buddies and I decided we’d check out the breaks in\u00a0the southern most peninsula of Costa Rica, the Osa Peninsula.\u00a0 Osa is probably the most remote of the Costa Rican regions, with many gravel highways and some areas dependent on electrical generators for power.\u00a0 While Costa Rica contains 5% of the world’s biodiversity, tiny little Osa contains about 3% of the world’s biodiversity…oh yea, and some GREAT surf.\u00a0 Getting to the Osa isn’t too tough.\u00a0 You fly to San Jose and then take a puddle jumper to either Puerto Jimenez or Carate.\u00a0 From there however, you better rent a dependable 4-wheel drive vehicle because many of the major roads are not yet paved and a little rocky.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Our first break was in\u00a0Manzanillo\u00a0where we stayed at the Encanta La Vida bed and breakfast.\u00a0 Great food, nice accommodations, unfortunately nearly flat conditions.\u00a0We tried afew other\u00a0nearby breaks (e.g., Germany) to no\u00a0avail. \u00a0From there we moved to the\u00a0La Leona Lodge in La Leona.\u00a0 This bed and breakfast requires a 2.5 mile hike from the closest roads (see the picture above.\u00a0 That’s right we needed a horse-drawn carriage to bring the boards!), has no cell service, no internet connections, luxury tents as bungalows powered by a generator, great food, and thank goodness…spectacular chest-to-head high glassy breaks!\u00a0 After three days, those waves turned flat so we headed to Dominical, Dominicalito, and Playa Hermosa (not the one near Jaco, but in Osa).\u00a0 We stayed at the Baru Eco Reserve and surfed great head high waves at Guapil.\u00a0 When those waves started to close out, we beat it to Esterillios and La Serena Hotel.\u00a0 Nice head-high, long board waves!<\/p>\n

Here are a few more pictures and stories.\u00a0 You’ll notice that there are only\u00a0surfing pictures in small surf.\u00a0 We were too busy surfing in the bigger surf!<\/p>\n

Either click on the “slideshow” or arrow down to page through the pictures one at a time.\u00a0 Enjoy!\u00a0 Don’t forget to sign in\u00a0on our Guest Page!
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