We headed south from Cartago, where we lost our GPS when the Bagleys and Austin were here, and soon found ourselves in the mountains. There must be some wind here as there were lots of wind turbines.
Close up of one of the wind turbines. By the way, the GPS worked well this trip.
Most of the soil I have seen here is black, volcanic ash. So I thought it was interesting this time that we saw many places where the natural soil color was red.
We also saw many very large boulders and rock formations.
I think I have shown these before. But they are all over in coffee growing areas. The coffee beans are loaded in by the growers up above and on the back side. Here there were just roads higher up, switchbacks. And then the trucks to take the beans away are loaded from the schute at the bottom.
We saw quite a few men riding horses in the mountains. I tried to take a couple of pictures of horses being ridden but they didn't turn out. This is one of the horses resting in his pasture. But I guess they make a good form of transportation where there aren't especially good roads.
We would have gone to these hot springs. We really enjoyed the ones in Arenal when the Bagleys and Austin were here. But this one wasn't open in the evening and we didn't take the time out of the next day to go back. Anyways, there was an almost impassible road to get there!
We saw lots of farmers wearing their gum boots and carrying their machetes. Only thing wrong with this shot is that you can't see the machete. But I didn't want him to know I was taking his picture so couldn't ask him to pose.
Lots of dogs all over Costa Rica. Everybody must have at least one.
Pretty church in the town just before San Gerardo de Rivas.
I told you before about the African oil palm trees. We had seen them on the way to Manuel Antonio. This time we saw more of them, all the way south to Dominical.
This was a load of the "coconuts"? on the way to the processing plants. We passed two of these processing plants, one south of Manuel Antonio and one north. There are mile after mile of these palm groves and they produce a lot of palm oil there.
I suppose you can guess why I took this picture.
I had to have a picture of this sign offering property "for sell". It was nailed to a tree by the Crocodile Bridge.
This is a pile of coffee wood which is what they use to do a lot of cooking here. Many restaurants avertise that they cook their chicken over coals of the wood from the coffee plants.
At home we have a hybiscus bush. This one is much larger and has pretty flowers in a peachy color. Ours are dark red.
We headed south from Cartago, where we lost our GPS when the Bagleys and Austin were here, and soon found ourselves in the mountains. There must be some wind here as there were lots of wind turbines.
Close up of one of the wind turbines. By the way, the GPS worked well this trip.
Most of the soil I have seen here is black, volcanic ash. So I thought it was interesting this time that we saw many places where the natural soil color was red.
We also saw many very large boulders and rock formations. 
I think I have shown these before. But they are all over in coffee growing areas. The coffee beans are loaded in by the growers up above and on the back side. Here there were just roads higher up, switchbacks. And then the trucks to take the beans away are loaded from the schute at the bottom.
We saw quite a few men riding horses in the mountains. I tried to take a couple of pictures of horses being ridden but they didn't turn out. This is one of the horses resting in his pasture. But I guess they make a good form of transportation where there aren't especially good roads.
We would have gone to these hot springs. We really enjoyed the ones in Arenal when the Bagleys and Austin were here. But this one wasn't open in the evening and we didn't take the time out of the next day to go back. Anyways, there was an almost impassible road to get there!
We saw lots of farmers wearing their gum boots and carrying their machetes. Only thing wrong with this shot is that you can't see the machete. But I didn't want him to know I was taking his picture so couldn't ask him to pose.
Lots of dogs all over Costa Rica. Everybody must have at least one.
Pretty church in the town just before San Gerardo de Rivas.
I told you before about the African oil palm trees. We had seen them on the way to Manuel Antonio. This time we saw more of them, all the way south to Dominical. 
This was a load of the "coconuts"? on the way to the processing plants. We passed two of these processing plants, one south of Manuel Antonio and one north. There are mile after mile of these palm groves and they produce a lot of palm oil there.
I suppose you can guess why I took this picture.
I had to have a picture of this sign offering property "for sell". It was nailed to a tree by the Crocodile Bridge.
This is a pile of coffee wood which is what they use to do a lot of cooking here. Many restaurants avertise that they cook their chicken over coals of the wood from the coffee plants.
At home we have a hybiscus bush. This one is much larger and has pretty flowers in a peachy color. Ours are dark red. 
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