anyway this was way to much stuff for a already crowded bus so we took a taxi to tamarindo 60 bucks for a 60 mile ride. now the taxi ride was something out of a Action Movie !!!. once at the hotel we where greeted by the staff warmley because I had meet them last year and made some good friends there. now porters took the bags to the room and we followed, once there i made a few phone calls to the rental car place and a friend in CR and of course the Dive Op. we made plans to dive the next morning at 7am. but we put our swim suits on and made our first dive that afternoon in the pool at the hotel . the next morning I got up early and went down to get some of that CR coffee that I love soooo much. I came back to the room later and woke skye up and we got ready to do our first dive's Yeepppy. the dive op picked us up at the hotel and there was already 5 divers in the van. we where told that 4 of the diver's where newbie's and they where going out on a boat of there own and skye and a lady from argentina and I where going out on a boat by ourselves with the captain and crew of course. so we headed out for the catalina Ilands and our first dive was on elephant rock. the vis was not that great because a storm surge had stirred up the waters pretty good from the week before and they where having a bit of Red Tide also in the area 
our first dive was about 80 ft deep and plenty to see also Fish Fish Fish everywhere!. dive 2 was at Cupcake iland and the deepth was 60 ft again big schools of Fish everywhere. the next day we decided not to dive and let the vis clear-up alittle and secured our rental car and drove around the country alittle to see all the great things that CR has to offer. our next dive was out at the catalina's again this time it was (blank rock? 65 ft) and there we saw our first shark of the trip it was a little nurse shark Yeeeppy. and our next dive was on dirty rock 60 ft and there the vis was great!!! lobsters, fish, sea creature's galore!!!. took the next day to travel about CR again. there's a volcano and hot springs and clear rivers that you can go rafting on. one day we drove from the Pacific ocean to the Gulf of Mexico/Atlantic by car in the same day. we stayed away from the big resturants and choose to eat at local place's and the food was great and not expensive. our next dive was on dirty rock again where just a few days before had a great dive and good vis. I had been taking pic's the whole time on every dive if it was a good shot or not. alot of the time I just stuck my camera into a opening in the rocks and started snapping away. the flash from the camera brought out the curious fish. we dove, drived. and dined What a Blast we had. ( this is just the tip of the iceburg on all we got ourselves into ) B2B
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