Costa Rica - A Trip to the Sailing Centre

After our long day yesterday we stuck close to home today. The Costa Rica Sailing Centre is across the street from us and offers kayaks, boogie boards and small sailboats for rent. We rented a double kayak and a boogie board and Kerry and Callie were the first to attempt the kayak. It was low tide and the waves were breaking quite irregularly. Some were very small and others were a few feet tall as they hit shore. I'm glad that one of the rental guys came to help them because my plan for getting them into the water was unlikely to be successful.

I was planning on just shoving them out in between waves and telling them to paddle really fast. This might have worked however since the waves were unpredictable they may have ended up heading right into the one shown above. It was better to push them out past the waves and release them from waste deep water. Coming back they got lucky and paddled ashore right in between waves. Carter and I were not so lucky and were almost swamped. We both leaned in to the wave and surfed it into shore.

We still had a bit of time left after kayaking with the boogie board. The waves were big enough to push you towards shore but not so big that you could truly surf them. Callie tried first but she soon got distracted by the many beach dogs that were coming down to the water to cool down. My favourite was the one that looked like the dog from Pirates of the Caribbean. Put some keys in his mouth and he looked just like him. He really enjoyed getting his head scratched.

Our only other excursion was to Perlas for dinner. It's an open air bar and tonight was BBQ night. Well, maybe every night is BBQ night but since it was our first time I can make it sound like it was something unusual. The atmosphere was a bit unusual because it was Bingo night. Well, maybe every night is Bingo night but since it was our first time I can make it sound like it was something unusual. All the patrons were crowded into the bingo area and from what I could tell, some kid kept trying to steel the bingo balls.