We're both jet-lagged to the eyeballs and struggling to get a good night's sleep which is not helped by what sounds like dogs howling outside our house at about 4.30am. This turns out to be a troop of Howler monkeys who've decided the trees by our door would make a good place for breakfast.
These brilliant animals are amongst the largest monkeys in the New World and have prehensile tails, making them fasinating to watch as they use these to help get around the trees, or to hang down whilst enjoying a snack!
As we'd got up so early we decided to go down to the beach for a walk and a swim. What an amazing way to start the day - breakfast, a walk on the almost deserted beach, a swim, a walk back by the jungle and still only 9am! This is a great time for a swim as Samara is known for it's surfing but at this time of day the surf's not 'up' - to use a technical term - and the sea is just perfect. Average water temperature 28 degrees and beautiful soft sand.
In the early evening we took another walk and came across 11 monkeys in one tree. Stood and watched tham for ages, including the cutest baby monkey ever.
We have to make the most of this time as we start our TEFL course on Nov 19th and everyone's said that it's really intensive, with no time to do anything else, even keep up with your favourite soap - so I'll just have to make do with a catch up of The Archers Omnibus on i-player!
By the way all the photos (and video) from San Jose onwards are Dave's - no need to search Google for images any more!
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