Secluded Vacation

A Costa Rica scientific fin and satellite tagging expedition recently got underway at Cocos Island mapping its green sea turtle and hawksbill visitors.

Conservationists and researchers travel Costa Rica open waters for at least 30 hours in their quest of migration habits about these ancient marine animals.

They are engaged in a kind of working Costa Rica vacation that they hope will contribute to saving these marvelous reptilian mariners now endangered in much of their range.

Cocos Island was described by the famous oceanographer, Jacque Cousteau, as the most beautiful island he had ever encountered. The small island, only about nine square miles in size, lies some 340 miles off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, almost halfway to the Galapagos Islands.

It was not the lovely sunsets and beaches that captivated Captain Cousteau. Its beauty is just off its shores, under water, in a place that Costa Ricans have chosen as one of the Seven Wonders of Costa Rica. In those waters one finds incomparable treasure: huge schools of fish, porpoises, whales and turtles.  Read more...

As we age people like to take stock in what they have done in their lives. People start to think about what they have accomplished, what they have seen and what they still want to do. This causes many of us to make a wish list, or as Morgan Freeman called it in his movie with Jack Nicholson; The Bucket List. It can be overwhelming looking at the amount of goals that one has yet to accomplish and frustrating to not know where to begin. But there is one country in the world that is affordable, exciting and filled with activities that will most like be on your list. You will actually feel that you have accomplished something after you have visited Peru.

Even if you only have two weeks in Peru, you can return home knowing that you have just kick started your life list and put a good dent into checking off some of the most incredible activities you will ever do in your life.  Read more...