"Thursday evening in Golfito.
"I just learned today that my Monday email didn´t get sent. That's where you would have learned about my cold (all better now) and various factoids about Costa Rica. My error - I mistyped your email address - but no clue why it took 3 days to inform me that it couldn't be sent.
"There's only one email place here in Golfito (plus another I heard about much farther away). I didn´t make it 'into town' yesterday. Hiked in the morning, then it was pouring rain in the afternoon. I sent an email about the hike via ship's email, for whenever that gets delivered.
"Today's rain forest field trip with Lee's class went off well. A group of 22. They bused us to an ecolodge about an hour away. Looked like they had about 10 cabins, nowhere near as plush as Chan Chich. There we divided into two groups and their English speaking guides took us on about a 2-and-a-half hour hike. Pretty steep trails, and muddy, but fairly interesting.
"The rumor of an extra day here, which you'll eventually read about in yesterday's email, proved to be unfounded. We'll be departing at 8 a.m. tomorrow for the longest sea-leg of the trip. I understand it's customary to spend a couple of days doing 'rubber docking' near Catalina.
"I'm going to wrap this up rather quickly because I'm down to my last 500 colones, and that doesn't buy too much internet time. ... I'm going to wander off for dinner (they take dollars there, so I'm OK), then back to the ship."
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