I'm now wearily, happily, home from Costa Rica. My silence during the final few days of my trip was due largely to exhaustion from so many beautiful hikes in the cloud forests around Monteverde and…
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Tomorrow I leave the coast of Costa Rica and its gorgeous sunsets for the cloud forests of Monteverde. I invite you to enjoy some of my sunset photography. Just for fun, which of these four…
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Playa Carbon (Charcoal Beach) near Tamarindo (photographer unknown) Playa Carbon is a sparkling black-sand beach only fifteen minutes by boat from Tamarindo, Costa Rica. My guide Henry anchored in its cove the other day…
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Who knew that the outgoing tide could paint the sand with such delicacy? Here are just a few "landscape portraits" I discovered yesterday afternoon on the beach at Tamarindo, Costa Rica. A low tide gallery…
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I grew up in the Eastern woodlands of Ohio. We didn't eat much fish beyond the occasional perch and bluegill we caught in our farm pond. As an adult I've never developed a taste for…
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By a very strange series of events, I find myself in Costa Rica for two weeks. Not bad, eh? Except that I had to leave behind my husband and son in South Dakota. The morning…
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