Reishi

I found some Reishi mushrooms growing on a log on my property. Here are some photos.

Pavones

Things are going well. A friend that I met in Santa Cruz last summer came to visit and help out on the farm. His name is Chris but I'll probably be referring to him as Perch as thats his nickname. Since he showed up a few days ago I've mostly been showing him around. On Saturday we went to the famous surf spot Pavones which is a little over an hour from us here in the south of Costa Rica.

Up there I've shown in the color red where we were on Saturday. The drive there is beautiful, we go through a plesant swath of agricultural land with freshly planted pastures and acres upon acres of Palm Oil plantations.

Fresh Pasture


Here is a pasture with African oil palms behind.

Almost looks like the desert.


Had a little lightning storm the other night.. this is the view off my back porch with a slow shutter speed.

This lizard lives next door. He's always chasing this female lizard around and making a commotion.

Our view from the back porch.. It's pretty pleasant. We've been spending a lot of time sitting out there on rocking chairs studying Spanish.

The plan for this week is I am supposed to take a walk around our property with a guy from Minae, the governments environmental protection arm. They are going to hopefully give me a ballpark idea of what kind of stuff I'll be allowed to do on our property. But no matter how it comes out we are going to start off next week cutting lots and lots of ferns from an area that was previously cattle pasture.