In this Daily: The Peninsula de Nicoya’s Blue Zone, Costa Rica’s Longest-Lived Area The Nicoya Peninsula, which Las Catalinas is on the northern edge of, is one of the world’s five blue zones, geographic areas where high numbers of the population consistently live to 100 years and older while maintaining vitality, energy, and high…

In this Daily: A Coral Population Explosion at Las Catalinas I have been snorkeling around Las Catalinas since 2006.  There has always been lots of life, lots of interesting fish.  But until the last 5 years or so, there was no live coral, at least not things that were obviously live coral to me.  …

In this Daily: The Weather in Costa Rica Throughout the Year According to Las Pintas The beginning of this year also brought the beginning of Las Pintas, a Costa Rican folk belief that indicates that the weather on the first days of the year “paint” the weather of the rest of the year. Las…

In this Daily: The Southern Highlands Trails Bring Two New Elements to Town as Costa Rican Mountain Biking Destination Two new single track mountain biking trails opened at the beginning of January 2020 in the 1000 acre tropical dry forest reserve in Las Catalinas. These bikeable trails include a circular loop through the Southern…

In this Daily: A Lifetime of Learning in Scuba, from Bubblemaker to Divemaster and Beyond Diving is classified into two very broad categories: recreational diving and technical diving. Recreational diving is limited to depths of 130 feet, and follows certain no-decompression limits, while technical diving encompasses all other forms of deep diving, saturation diving,…

In this Daily: The Reptiles of the Tropical Dry Forest Reserve Guanacaste’s warm and sunny summer days bring increased activity from the reptiles in the 1000 acre tropical dry forest reserve in town, like the Black Iguana, the Barred Ameiva, the Deppe’s Whiptail Lizard, and the Painted Wood Turtle, which were all documented during…

In this Daily: The Best Breaks in Guanacaste to Visit from Las Catalinas Sitting in the heart of one of the world’s premier surfing regions, Las Catalinas provides a surf basecamp with access to many of the area’s breaks. From the legendary Witch’s Rock to the shores of Playa Grande, from the all-play shores…