Our Beach trip to Limon

On February 26th, we went to a beach in Limon. Before we get to far ahead of ourselves, this is how we got there. First of all we rode a bus. It took about an hour to wait for the bus. We fell asleep in the back, it was so tiring. Lucky us we didn't have to grab the first seat, we had reserved seats in the back. After the hour-and-a-half bus ride, we were in Siquirres. Then we had to wait for the train. When we finally got on it, it took three hours to get to our bus stop. There were vendors selling Jamaican style food on the train and a silly parade the train workers did. The workers had costumes on that were really freaky and they had a cow bell and megaphone. We didn't really understand what was going on but everybody else was laughing! When we finally got to our bus stop in Limon, we got onto another bus and we rode that for just a few minutes and then we were at the beach.

The first thing we did was we set up out picinic/camping spot and we went to the ocean to swim. Imagine a sea of endless waves just coming towards you. Now imagine jumping over the waves like a dolphin. Sometimes the waves were huge and we got swept away with water up our nose. When we were resting from wave jumping we saw...sand dollars up on the beach. We dug them up and brought them to our resting area. We found a lot, but most of them broke because they are so fragile. Did you know that sand dollars are actually living creatures? The part we found was just the skeleton.






Here are some of our observations we made during this trip. The houses we passed when we were on the train were different from ours here in Costa Rica. Most of the houses were small with lots of people inside. It looked crowded to me. We also observed the port city of Limon. One thing we saw was a big barge at sea probably waiting to be loaded with fruits and vegetables. We think that because we saw saw a lot of shipping containers on shore with a lot of Dole fruits and vegetables waiting to be shipped all over the world.




That was our beach trip. We returned late, Maggie was zonked and we were tired too.

Respectfully submitted

Los Gemelos de Muth (Grace and James)