Osa!

Repacking our framepacks, going from Puerto Jimenez to Osa. Making sure that everything's well distributed and whatnot.

Kate models her 35 pound pack. Some things didn't fit, so we had to lash them to the outside.

It was a 50 minute flight in a Cessna Caravan... very small aircraft. They had to weigh both our baggage and ourselves before we got on, it was so small. The plane took us from the capital of San Jose to Puerto Jimenez, a small town on the Osa Peninsula.

Kate poses by the propeller of our tiny plane.

On the airstrip at Puerto Jimenez, another plane taxis for takeoff.



Hermit crabs! I'd crack open coconuts for them, and they'd go nuts.

See how close our tent was to the water line? At high tide the waves couldn't've been more the fifteen feet from where we slept.


Campfire on the beach. This was really the only night we bothered; cooking on the whisperlite was much easier, and when the sun went down we really just wanted to go to sleep.