After another evening of deafening saxophone solos from the night club across the street, we got up for our last beach breakfast at the hostel in Tamarindo. We were joined by the usual group of iguanas and hungry birds, but also saw a howler monkey climb over our heads for the first time since we have been here.
After breakfast we hit the road for Liberia to be close for our flight home tomorrow. Penny demanded that we stop for a break about an hour in to the drive, so we pulled in to the city of Santa Cruz to find a park to run around in. The park was packed with school children in matching T-shirts for some kind of autism awareness event, so naturally we joined right in and watched the unicycling clowns do their thing. Penny and Ellis also hit up the teeter totters with some local ninos.
We made it to Ortega for a boat tour down a river in Palo Verde national park. It was pretty cool, we saw lots of freshwater crocodiles, and a bunch more birds, iguanas, and monkeys. Penny's mood varied from excited to sleepy during what was often her afternoon nap time on this trip.
One more stop at a park with an urban soccer pitch, then back to the hotel with the cave pool that we stayed at our very first night here. Despite all of the interesting ecotourist stops that we made, I think that the kids would have been perfectly content to play in this pool and eat at this restaurant for two weeks if that's how the vacation had panned out!
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