Voyage of Gaviota: Da Boys

Well, Pat and Alex have been down here staying on the boat with me for almost 2 weeks now and we've been having a pretty damn good time. The original plan was for us 3 to go sail around and explore the areas of costa rica that are only accessable by boat. What ended up happining is that we ran into a rediculous burocratic paperwork dilema that had us driving all over the area talking, bribing and begging officials to let us have temporary visa so that we could go see their country! After a week of this we all decided it was too much hassle and we should go to plan B: SURF, EAT, SLEEP...drink beer. We have made the best of this unfortunate situation though and have squezzed just about everything postive thing we can out of this shitty area called puntarenas. We have basically become locals. The people in the restaurant here are awesome and we just have a running tab, we lounge by the pool with beers, BBQ on the boat and wake up every morning to hike out to a secret overhead left point where we haven't seen a single person in the last 6 days. Not bad. This point is amazing, you have to hike about 3 miles and over some seriously sharp rocks, but when you get there you set up camp and surf your own private left point. The swell seems to be dying even though the swell models say it should be increasing, so last night we performed the sure fire ritual of drinking way too much to bring the surf on. I don't know what happened but instead of more swell we got more wind...hense the reason I'm not out surfing right now. Anyways, the sailing trip to nowhere has been pretty fun. I a couple days we will drive to San Jose, drop off Alex, Pat will pick up Rachael and his mom and I will pick up Jamie. Jamie and I will provision for the next 4 months in San Jose and then we will drive down to Playa Dominical to hang out with Pat and Rachael for a day or two before we head back to the boat to get ready for our pacific crossing! Here's some pics from the last couple weeks....PURA VIDA