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To: KLP who wrote (193703)	1/22/2007 1:59:26 PM
From: skinowski	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793622

No, no rough hombres. But the monkeys are actually pretty - what's the right term - assertive. Specifically, the alpha males. They kind of yell at you, making loud noises - that's how they claim the territory. The black sand acts exactly like regular white sand. No staining, and the water remains clear by the surf. The sand settles right away. Add to that the black volcanic rocks and abundant jungle greenery right by the beach. It's all a little unusual, and... addictive... ;)

To: KLP who wrote (193703)	1/22/2007 10:41:01 PM
From: alanrs	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793622

We were in Costa Rica about 10 years ago. It's a nice place, but there are problems. Little things like armed guards (and I mean military armed, not rent a cop) at ATM machines in San Jose. Also, on the Atlantic coast, from Limon south to Panama, it was quite common for a native walking along the road to make the motions of smoking a joint or snorting coke, to the passing cars. Very open about it. There's a lot more going on there than meets the eye of a casual observer. Not to mention the confiscatory squatting laws and cottage industry set up to take advantage of them. I have a friend, married to a Costa Rican, who has an ecotourism business there and he is not happy with government procedures, to put it politely. Another guy I know-crane operator-had a sport fishing thing going until they decided to tax large power boats and made the tax retroactive, by 3 years. He tells quite a tale of leaving the country in his boat, selling it in Panama, and then finagling his way back into Costa Rica (without a stamped passport) so he could get back to the states. FWIW ARS