Thursday, October 18, 2012

Costa Rica: Balsa River Whitewater Rafting

With the same company we went white water rafting on the Balsa River - class 2 and 3 rapids. It was Omar and Jeron's first time white water rafting. It was pretty fun with exception that our guide was not so nice. The major rapids were pretty much the first ones we hit and he kept saying "What can I do to help you paddle together and to listen?" He just kept yelling at us. We were doing everything that he was saying but it was never good enough. He would yell, "more power, more power" I don't think we had any more power to give. We still had a good time and stayed safe. No one fell out of our raft. One of the other rafts was not so lucky. Their guide took them to the side of the river that is not safe and there is a whirlpool - they were stuck and a girl fell out and was getting turned around and around like in a washing machine. She was pretty shook up. It made me a little happy that our guide was at least more experienced.

We had a break with yummy fresh pineapple and watermelon half way through the trip. Then afterward they gave us another delicious, huge buffet of typical food. We were stuffed.

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