Now, I know that i tend to over exaggerate a bit when i tell stories but this time its for real!! This truly was the day we almost died!
It all began on a gorgeous sunny morning. I awoke to fresh brewed costa rican coffee. My plate of gallo pinto, fried eggs and plantains were overshadowed by my plate of fresh pineapple, watermelon and canteloupe. It was looking like the perfect day. In fact today our class was taking a field trip to the Manuel Antonio National Park! We were having class on the beach today. weeeee!
I met Desiree, Robin and our teacher Victor at the bus stop and we headed for the park. Upon entering we took a quick dip in the first beach within the park perimeter. A gorgeous half moon bay of crystal clear water surrounded by jungle. It was lovely. We chose two hikes for the day. The first was the cascada trail and the second was to the mysterious 5th beach. Many know of the beach but its rocky headland often scares people off. Which is why we chose it! Its amazing and deserted!
Our trip to the waterfall was great. The pic of me under the falls is in the `Im too sexy for NY` earlier in my blog. Anyways, after that hike we moved on to the 5th beach. The trail leading down to the shore is pretty steep and muddy. You exit at a pretty rocky beach and walk north on the beach alongside tons of lava rocks and boulders. The beach is crazy. At this point the tide was pretty low and most of the beach was in view. The hike ends at a gorgeous beach backed by steep hills covered in jungle and surrounded by cliffs off in the distance. The water was crystal clear and calm as a lake. We hung out for about 30 minutes and started to notice the tide coming in pretty fast. We packed up our shit and headed back. There wasn´t much beach to begin with so we knew we needed to move fast. All along the shore were crazy sharp lava rocks and due to the high tide the beach was gone and we had to climb up and hike on the rocks. The waves started coming in real fast and started crashing up against us completely submerging us at times which forced us to crawl higher on the rocks! The best part about that was that were thousands of crabs living on these rocks! So every time you would grab a rock you would also grab a crab. And it would grab you! Not fun. Anyways, this went on for about 30 minutes. Foot placement was super important along with timing everystep to the waves. One false move and you could slip and fall, only to be crashed up against the crabby rocks by the next huge wave. IT WAS SO SCARY!!!! Fortunately we survived. But not without shedding blood. Desiree took a bad spill and got thrown up against a rock and tore up her leg pretty bad and Robin fell off and landed on a rock and then got smashed up against a boulder leaving a pretty big gash in her shin. Aside from the few crabs that nipped me and some cuts on my palms, from holding on for dear life, i came out unscathed.
Needless to stay it was probably one of the scariest moments in my life. But, fortunately im alive.
Above are re-enactment photos for your pleasure.
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