When entering Puerto Jimenez, one sees mini billboards advertising services for backpackers and eco-gurus
The first time I went to Puerto Jimenez was back in the mid 1970, and it took us about three days traveling on very pot-hole ridden, one-lane dirt road. And thinking back, I think we were heading to Panama or Golfito, made a right instead of going straight at Chacarita, and ended in this very remote town. About the only Gringos we saw were surfers who were headed to Cabo Matapalo, a small town that was becoming known for its awesome surf break. At the time it become most famous for its gold mining and logging in the 1960s. Even today, some try their luck at gold mining and these wood mills are still seen on the way.
Named in honor of Costa Rican three-time elected President Ricardo Jiménez, Puerto Jimenez has grown to become the largest town on the Osa Peninsula that’s located in the southern part of the Puntarenas province and the threshold of Corcovado National Park. Read more...(740 words, 5 images, estimated 2:58 mins reading time)
“The anglers were nestled all snug in their beds, while visions of roosterfish danced in their heads”.
Apologies to Clement Clarke Moore, who wrote ‘Twas the Night before Christmas’ almost 200 years ago, for this bit of poetic license. Of course, had he been a fisherman — and we can’t rule that out — he would surely understand.
There was more than roosterfish on the mind of Steve Hanna and his group, whom Costa Rica Fishing hooked up with Tamarindo with Captain Manuel Leal on the 36ft Capullo out of Tamarindo in the North Pacific. Steve’s party raised three marlin, releasing a striper and a 275lb black, and also bagged three 20-40lb tuna on a very good day.
2010 fishing season ends with a bang!
A couple of days earlier, Erin Fitzsimmons and her group on the 42ft Dragin Fly out of Los Sueños Marina in the Central Pacific managed ‘just enough’ to call it a successful day, releasing two billfish and keeping a big dorado for dinner. Read more...(463 words, 2 images, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)
Costa Rica is one of four countries trying to set a goal of Carbon Neutrality by 2030.
Little did we all know but that tiny Costa Rica is one of only four countries in the world that has set a concrete goal of Carbon neutrality by the year 2030.
Former Environment Minister Roberto Dobles said the tiny, jungle-cloaked Central American nation would clean up its fossil fuel-fired power plants, promote hybrid vehicles and increase tree planting to balance its emissions.
“The goal is to be carbon neutral,” Dobles told Reuters. “We’d like to do it in the next 20 years.” He said Costa Rica would also eliminate net emissions of other greenhouse gases. While this policy is not without some controversy the heart of MINAET seems to be in the right place.
Iceland, New Zealand, Norway and Costa Rica are all hoping to turn their economies green, but the challenges they face are formidable.
So what can we do to help? In part two of “Decreasing the carbon footprint of new home construction in Costa Rica we are going to offer some simple small scale strategies that will help Costa Rica achieve this very formidable goal. Remember think Globally but act locally is a strong tune if enough people carry it. Read more...(986 words, 2 images, estimated 3:57 mins reading time)
Free Trade has made the Costa Rica Private Investigator a more demanding profession for corporations and legal firms.
If you think being a Private Investigator is how Hollywood has glorified it, think again. Most PIs will tell you, nowadays it’s more leg work and lonely surveillance. The days of the Sam Spades and Philip Marlows may be over in the US, but not necessary in Costa Rica. With the industry now growing at a rapid rate, and the need for corporations and legal firms to use private investigators, the scope to specialize in more than one geographical location has increased, Costa Rica being one of those.
Costa Rica always has had a reputation for being the ideal spot to hide from the law. It is no secret many have sought sanction from criminal warrants and civil judgments. Probably the most infamous in one of the biggest financial frauds in history (at the time) was scammer, Robert Lee Vesco who fled to Costa Rica in 1971. At the time a national law was made to protect him from extradition. Consequently, Costa Rica became the preferred home of many “bad guys,” with their lax laws on extradition, secluded areas, and the easy laws on obtaining residency. Read more...(1540 words, 2 images, estimated 6:10 mins reading time)
The video was very disturbing in parts. The sender asked us for our help in spreading the word on this violent crime on women, and cyber awareness to this one particular grave situation in a hope to bring justice against this violent predator who was first talked about in Rip Off Report a few years back.
It appears that many more women have stepped forward after this video was shown on youtube.
As most of our followers know, and with the community help of local Costa Rican’s and Gringo’s we helped exposed the Sexual Pedophile, Jim Baker.
The website pleaded to President Laura Chinchilla with the below quote:
We, the undersigned, call on the President of Costa Rica, Laura Chinchilla, to enact law against the crime of stalking in Costa Rica. We urge President Chinchilla to order an immediate arrest and investigations into the men who perpetrate violent and sexual gender crimes against expatriate women and all women in Costa Rica.
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