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Category Archives: Costa Rica

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Playa Junquillal y Playa Negra en Costa Rica

March 14, 2022by Albatz Travel Adventures 7 Comments

We arrived at Playa Junquillal after a long bumpy ride. The road was so bad that Al said he could no longer drive it. I agreed instantly; my seatbelt choked […]

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Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Costa Rica
Driftwood boat decorate a boathouse at Gronemad, Sweden

Art Unexpected: Driftwood

March 8, 2020by Albatz Travel Adventures 6 Comments

My dad used to take us kids wandering along the beaches of the Pacific West Coast where there was driftwood galore. Every often he’d find something the reminded him of […]

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Art, BC, Costa Rica, Sweden
Marguey cat in Costa Rica

Patterns in Nature: Fauna (& a Bit of Flora) in Costa Rica

March 19, 2018by Albatz Travel Adventures Leave a comment

A ‘cocodrilo‘ (crocodile) lurking amongst the flower petals in very pretty pond in Costa Rica.Also in Costa Rica, this tiny green and black patterned frog known as the Poison Dart Frog, Dendrobates auratuz. Its […]

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Hanging bridge in the Costa Rican jungle

J is for Jungle, Costa Rican Style: Hanging Bridges in Arenal

October 24, 2017by Albatz Travel Adventures 6 Comments

In Hanging Bridges a loop trail takes you through the Costa Rican jungle where you can view some rather strange-looking plants. Three different types of Heliconia, also known as the Lobster […]

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Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Costa Rica

Iguana Starts with the Letter I

October 17, 2017by Albatz Travel Adventures 7 Comments

Iguanas are perhaps my favourite lizard! The big old iguana we called El Jefe, The Boss. He lived in Franklin’s backyard in Ostional, Costa Rica – Franklin protected him from […]

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Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Costa Rica, Mexico
Playa Blanca Beach in Costa Rica

Off the Beaten Path

September 29, 2017by Albatz Travel Adventures 4 Comments

In this day of the internet and bucket lists is there any place left in the world that can be described as ‘Off the Beaten Path’? Certainly back in the […]

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A Photo a Week Challenge, Arizona, BC, Costa Rica, Ireland, Road Trip, Spain
Wild jaguar in Costa Rican jungle

WPC: Against All Odds

February 16, 2017by Albatz Travel Adventures 10 Comments

Let me say that several times I have been in situations that were against all the odds. But when they happened my last thought was to pull out my camera and take […]

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BC, Costa Rica, Mexico, Weekly Photo Challenge
Costa Rican beach pebbles in a coconut shell

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Things That Are Smooth

February 16, 2016by Albatz Travel Adventures 5 Comments

A collection of things that are smooth from around the world. silky smooth… (a silk-weaving workshop in Myanmar) the lake was smooth as glass… (found in the BC Interior) goes down smooth as a […]

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BC, Belgium, Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Collections from Around the World, Costa Rica, India, Myanmar, Spain
Bar Casona at the edge of the Santa Rosa Jungle

Cold Cold Beers After a Hot Thirsty Hike in Costa Rica

September 27, 2014by Albatz Travel Adventures 2 Comments

Cerveza bien fría, por favor. After a hot, hot hike through Santa Rosa National Park, where we stupidly hadn’t brought along enough water, nothing was more inviting than this tiny little bar […]

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Costa Rica, Travel Theme
painting of jaguar and iguana in the Costa Rican jungle

Mixed media painting first assignment: ‘And all I could do was remember’

September 25, 2013by Albatz Travel Adventures 1 Comment

A blur of golden jaguar in the jungles of Costa Rica. The first assignment from my Mixed Media Painting classes was to do a painting inspired by the phrase, “And […]

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Art, Costa Rica, Painting

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