Octobre in Costa Rica & Panama

So I was lucky enough to spend the better part of October down in Costa Rica and Panama. The first two weeks myself and Dean made Turrialba our base in Costa Rica. This is a paddling destination with a huge range of runs to suit a decent range of abilities.
There is low volume steep creeking and all the way through to MASSIVE volume river running.
Costa Rica is a beautiful country with some very dramatic Geography and more than its fair share of absolutely mind blowing scenery!!!

I have to say the Peralta and down sections on the Reventazon is one of the coolest runs I have ever done. Never ending continuous big volume class III-IV with a bit of Class VI int here two. Absolutely sick!!!

From paddling through house sized boulders surrounded by the steep claustrophobic walls of the Jungle canyon to gorgeous white sand beaches with coconut palms lapping at the waters edge, Costa Rica has it all!!!
The Jungle is something I have to say is just absolutely fascinating. The biodiversity that is contained in that place is just something else. The ants are crazy, the birds are just stunning and the plethora of other creatures contained in this beast is amazing.
I was lucky enough to make it out to the Caribbean Coast with Dean before our work trip started. We stayed in Puerto Viejo and did a little biking mission down as far as you can go to Manzinillo. The coast is gorgeous and the water was so warm!! We skinny dipped before 6 am both mornings which was epic!!
The work trip in CR was phenomenal, we paddled some amazing rivers and saw some awesome progression from all the clients.

Panama was super awesome!! Great group of people with sick mustaches and the paddling was epic!! The food across the board was great even with myself being a Vege...

Here are some pics from my time down there!!

Dean, La Paz Waterfalls

Some Gorgeous jungle Scenery

The Iguana


Lower poza Azul Gorgeous

Dean bathed in Light in the Costa Rican Jungle

The Market..mmmmm

Living the Dream..

The Little Frog....

LAPD

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The Cock Keeping guard in Panama City

The Panama Canal

Flower on Macro....cheers for the Lens Bruce!!

The War Beetles

The Lower Pacuare Warriors

Poza Azul Cascada, Myslef, Photo: Dean Woodgate

Poza Azul Cascada, 2, Photo: Dean Woodgate

Pejibaye, Myself, Photo: Dean Woodgate


Sweet Sketchy Brdge

Panama, GORGEOUS

The cute and Cuddly Sloth

Poza Azul Cascada, Photo: Dean Woodgate

Poza Azul Cascada, Photo: Dean Woodgate

The Reventazon huge goodness!!!

Dean with Vulture above his head...look carefully

Dropping into Upper Huacas with Huacas Falls in the background, Photo: Dean Woodgate

The Toucan

Shuttle Time

The Carribean

Huuge Tarantula

So all in all my time in Central America was super awesome, cool, amazing and wicked!! We got to paddle some cool runs personally and we got to take a bunch of cool people down some of the most beautiful challenging runs they have ever done!!
I still have a few more Panama photos to sort through so will chuck them up when I get a moment. Also a bunch of video. Keep your eyes out!!

hasta luego

Blair