With John and Ella having decided to spend the day on the boat, Helen and I set off in the morning to Montezuma. We had been told the day before that the bus to Montezuma should pass by around 9am having left the ferry at Paquera around 8:30am. We wanted to walk from the nearby fishing village to the main road so John dropped us off before 8:30am. It was fortunate we were this early as the bus came by around 8:40am \u2013 we only just caught it.<\/p>\n

The bus had seen better days. The seats were in tatters and it sounded like the back end of the bus was about to fall off \u2013 and that was on the paved roads. It was worse when we hit the unpaved road that led from Cobana to Montezuma. The final stretch was down a very steep road which the bus driver, to our relief, took very carefully.<\/p>\n

<\/a>The bus finally stopped in a shady patch right off the beach in Montezuma. We spent a short while having a brief look around the town. It is not big but it is very quaint. <\/a>Effort has been made to keep all the buildings in good order. The majority of visitors there are young, many tattooed and many with dreadlocks. The occasional wafts of smoke had smells in keeping with the place.<\/p>\n

Not wanting to be caught out in the midday heat we decided to walk to the Montezuma Waterfalls early on. They turned out to be nearby. A short walk along the road by the beach and about five minutes more beyond brought us to a bridge. After crossing over there was a path upriver with a small sign to the waterfalls.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Very soon we reached a place where small trickles of water were falling over a wide section of rock. Being in the dry season we had to imagine what this place could have looked like during the rainy season. Even so it was quite nice.<\/p>\n

The path climbed up this section into a shaded river section with a path along side. Within <\/a>another ten minutes we reached the main falls.<\/p>\n

I’m terrible at estimating distances but I would guess they were about sixty feet high tumbling into a deep, cool pool at the bottom. Being a Sunday the area was already well occupied by a number of locals who were enjoying themselves in the pool and jumping off from various rocks around the falls.<\/p>\n

Helen and I took a swim ourselves. The pool felt pretty chilly getting in but was soon very refreshing.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Once we’d had enough of the place we headed back into town where we had an early lunch at the restaurant overlooking the main beach. The food was very nice although a little more expensive than the usual fare. Sometimes it’s worth it for the location.<\/p>\n

Quite unexpectedly we were given some entertainment of a sort. A local runabout was anchored <\/a>off the beach. The waves were quite choppy and can only have started coming over the stern as soon the boat was sinking and all the gear aboard floated off.<\/p>\n

Fortunately the boat had some buoyancy and didn’t completely sink. Also, the gear aboard headed ashore. Soon the situation was noticed and a growing collection of individuals rallied round to rescue the gear and the boat. More pictures of this can be found in the slideshow at the end of this blog.<\/p>\n

We decided to catch the 2pm bus back to Tambor. Having sat, sweating to death, on the wrong bus for 20 minutes or so we moved onto the correct bus which arrived and departed late. This bus was faster and more comfortable than the earlier bus. We took the bus into ‘town’ and walked the beach back to the fishing village. John picked us up when we radioed in.<\/p>\n

The discussed plan for today is to swap places. Helen and I will relax on the boat while John and Ella repeat our trip to Montezuma. We want to spend some time researching what to do while Ben and Jess are with us as their time is limited. We have already decided to meet up back at Herradura so they can try out surfing. Helen, having watched us train, is keen to give it a go too. Beyond that we may well just visit Montezuma again and on to Tortuga. We want to spend a few nights inshore so we need to figure that all out.<\/p>\n

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