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Drakes Bay was awesome. This is what you would picture true Costa Rica to be. Just beach and rain forest. All the roads were dirt, including the airstrip. This is the kind of airstrip where you worry about a cow wandering across it. The flight back was literally me and the two pilots in a single engined cesna.
The first day I went horseback riding through the rain forest with only the guide. He only spoke a bit of English but still communicated ok. We worked our way into the forest and then actually stopped at his house for lunch. His wife and daughter were home along with a worker. His daughter is a student in San Jose and spoke perfect english so that made translations for lunch much easier. He has a great little farm on the edge of the Parque Nacional Corcovado. There were monkeys, Toucan, many other birds and beautiful forest along the trail.
The hotel was a 5 star stay. With only 3 guests, every need was catered too and meals were all freshly prepared on the deck overlooking the ocean.
Day 2 was diving. I did a 3 tank dive off Isla del Cano. The first two dives were both on a pinnacle called El Diablo. We stayed in the 60-70 foot range, amazingly that's where the thermocline was so it was quite warm diving in only a shorty. There were TONs of fish, and a few eels. I was hoping to spot a shark but none materialized. The third dive wasn't much due to some Red Tide in that area. It took the visibility down to about 15 feet and ran most of the fish off. Hoever we did see about a 3-4 foot Devil Ray that made the third dive worth it.
This morning before my flight I spent it on the ridge behind the hotel in a hammock. I disturbed a coatimundi on the way up. It basically looked like a big cat coming down the tree.
Tomorrow I'm off to Quepos and Maual Antonio.