Montezuma

We headed over to Montezuma back on the West Coast. We took a boat to get there as it is on the other side of a large gulf. When we arrived to port, I thought it looked just perfect with the Costa Rican flag hanging on the ship and the port right in front of us. The area was very beautiful. The drive to Montezuma after the boat landed was very rough due to the roads and riding in a school bus, but it was also a beautiful view all around us.
I really liked Montezuma a lot. It is a town laid out around a very beautiful area of Costa Rica. It's right on a cove and there are waterfalls and many beautiful beaches nearby. We did the hike to the main waterfalls one day. It was a little weird to swim in the water because it was very brown and you couldn't see into it at all. It was very refreshing after the hike to get there, however. We got lost getting up to the next set of falls and went quite a ways in the wrong direction. A blue morpho butterfly saved us, though by flying right by us and to the trail that we would not have seen had it not come along. I think the butterflies speak to me. :D
When we finally got to the top area, we found many other people around and everyone had come a different way. There were a couple of jumps that you could do - one was only about 30 feet and the other was closer to 60 or 70 feet. We both did the smaller jump after standing and looking down for a little while first. I certainly wasn't going to do the other jump and just sat back and watched as the guys did the jump. Next thing I knew, I turned around and saw Scott jumping off the larger jump! I didn't see him come up since there were trees in the way, so I made everyone else assure me that he was back to the top of the water and fine.
The beaches all around were very beautiful and walking along to and from these beaches, we saw so many of these really colorful crabs. They'd hide when they saw us, but we must have seen 10-20 every few feet we walked.