The town of
Tamarindo lies on the northwest coast of Costa Rica on the Pacific Ocean. Its normal population is only about 500
people but can swell to 5000 on weekends and holidays. It is known for surfing and for the
Leatherback Turtles. Unfortunately, the
turtles are extremely endangered and rarely seen anymore. We were told by one local that only thirty
two of them were counted last year.
The town is
configured with one street running parallel to the beach and multiple streets
running perpendicular to that one away from the beach—none of them have names or house numbers. Our condo is on one of these perpendicular
streets
About half
way between our condo and the beach is a grocery store called the Super Compro.
It also has the medical clinic above it.
It is convenient and has just about everything we need on a daily basis.
This is milk on the shelf.
The vegetable are excellent.
There is a very good variety of alcohol in addition to all of the items in the coolers.
If there
happens to be a “North American” item we just can’t do without, we can walk a
couple miles down the beach road and go to the Auto Mercado. This is a very nice grocery store, a little
higher priced, with just about everything we have back home. It is designed with a “Mall” type entry with
a beautiful fish pond.
The street
along the beach is lined with souvenir shops, restaurants, and some
hotels. The souvenir shops have all
kinds of local crafts and trinkets.
Almost all of them are printed with Costa Rica and “Pura Vida”. “Pura Vida” literally means “Pure Life”
although the real meaning in Spanish is something like “Awesome”, “Going Great”,
“Full of Life”, or “Cool”. It is used as
both a greeting and a farewell and has been adopted throughout Costa Rica as a
national slogan.
There are all
kinds of shops that carry clothes,
And jewelry,
and pottery,
There are also banks, book stores, pharmacies, etc.
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This is just a sample of the shopping that is available here. About the only thing not here is a gas station but then we are walking or taking a bus or taxi every place we need to go.
Somebody must use a lot of Cialis! |
This is just a sample of the shopping that is available here. About the only thing not here is a gas station but then we are walking or taking a bus or taxi every place we need to go.
All of this is in addition to the shops that sell or rent all kinds of surfing equipment and
there are more of these than anything else.
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