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Day 2 - The Adventure Begins

Posted on October 21st, 2006 by Dax.
Categories: blog post.

We started today at breakfast at the hotel. This was the one meal a day that we get for free because it was part of our hotel package, so we made sure to get a good meal. It was a great spread of food, not like some sort of continental breakfast you get at hotels back in the states.

We began to look for Playa Avellana, which was located just south of Tamarindo. We drove back through Villa Real, and took a right. This was brand new territory for us from this point on. Luckily there were plenty of signs pointing us toward Playa Avellana, unfortuneately the roads got worse the further we drove. It had been raining for a day or two, and it was still raining as we journied down the road.

We continued to follow the signs that pointed to Avellana until we hit our first problem, the road had washed out. Luckily there was somebody in front of us, and they stopped before they got to the “river“.

I remembered seeing a fork in the road earlier on that led to this part of the road, so we headed back and followed the fork. The road kept getting more and more slippery. At times I wasn’t driving the vehicle as much as I was just aiming it in a particular direction.

I saw some additional signs that pointed to the Avellana Surf Camp. Unfortuneately, we hit another dead-end, a semi truck full of sod was stuck in the mud at a section of the road that was barely wide enough to fit a single vehicle.

We started to drive back to the hotel, and the rain started to get worse. Then we ended up at this little bridge that we had crossed on the way out, it was right next to Hacinda Pinilla. When we got back to the bridge, it was no longer a bridge but more like a bump in the river. We had no other choice but to cross it, otherwise we would have been trapped here until the rains, and the river, had let up. You can see our crossing here. This video is only 5.5 meg, so, unless you have dialup it shouldn’t take that much time to load.

At this point I was tired of being stressed out from driving in the terenchal rain and crazy mud, so we headed back to Tamarindo Diria.

It continued to rain for the rest of today, and we just checked out some of the local shops and got some more maps to try to plan for tomorrow.

Playa Avellana is starting to become something of a myth, but I am hoping that we can find this place soon and I am hoping to surf it before we head back to the states.

Dax out-

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