March 18
What did we do?
For a long time, I had been looking forward to driving to the end of Route 245 and walking the beach at Playa Carate towards the La Leona entrance to Corcovado National Park. It is a wild and beautiful spot; there are more Scarlet Macaws here than people.
There were a few vendors selling coconuts and cold drinks and we gladly paid the “remote location premium” for a couple of coconuts to supplement the KIND Bars we had dutifully brought along.
Afterward, we stopped at the nearby Laguna de Carate (turn right at the Mango Tree haha). At the lagoon, we saw many shorebirds, wetland birds (including a Roseate Spoonbill), macaws, and a crocodile in the water. We must have just missed a tapir as we saw his fresh tracks in the hard-packed sand.
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Playa Carate |
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At Playa Carate with my trusty walking stick |
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A coconut break at Playa Carate |
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