After a nice night sleep we were up and ready to go. Matt had a flight out the next day, so we decided to have a pure fun day. Not that every day is not fun on Coda!
We made reservations to go on a waterfall hike about 45 minutes away from the marina. It was glorious!
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This is La Leona Falls, near Liberia, Costa Rica. It was very hot out so the hike in water was a cool and beautiful thing. We took a taxi to the trail head and our guide led us along a 3 hour hike, half in water and half on land. The forest was spectacular.
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Some parts of the hike were a bit on the wet side but it felt so good to get cooled down from the 90 degree air.
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We forded the streams and hiked up the valley and it was great.
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This is the first of the falls. We thought this was great until we started hitting the big ones.
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This is La Leona falls. I tried to swim to it and get under it, but the current was way to fast to even get close.
That was a great day to wrap up Matts visit. Matt helped us cover 1500 miles and this was a great way to finish things up. After the hike, the guide took us back to the trail head where a hot lunch was waiting for us.