South Manitou Island It has been a lot of traveling the past week going from all over Costa Rica to Chicago and now I'm on my way up to Michigan's sleeping bear sand dunes where two islands are located about 10 miles east of the mainland. South Manitou Island looking at the mainland at Sleeping bear dunes The ferry boat took it's time...
Last day in Costa Rica and I wanted to make it a goo day so Andres and his girlfriend decided to meet us in the north and go back to the north karst region to explore a cave above cueva venado to observe some side passages and research a possible connection from this cave into cueva venado. If this cave connects to venado,...
Cueva Venado Costa Rica In Costa Rica volcano's identify a fault line that cuts through the country land running parallel to both oceans on both sides of the country. The Costa Rican land is fairly new in geological history and the volcano's elevate the country like a mountain range with some volcano's more active than others. Driving through the countryside was beautiful but...
Providenica De Dota Costa Rica Canyoneering Photo taken by Andres Alfaro Having to wake up at 4 am after getting to Costa Rica and hiking a 12hr day around a volcano the day before made a day of canyoning a bit more challenging but once we got going, it made for a great day of canyoning in the high altitude mountains of Costa...
Arenal Volcano Costa Rica Time for a little mini recovery from the expedition, canyoneering, and caving so a summit attempt on Arenal was the purpose of leaving the hot springs today. Unfortunately there was no real way to get to the summit and the elevation gain, the volcanic scree, and the active conditions at the top influenced our decision to stay in the...
The Second cave we went to visit is called Cueva Mucolitos which is situated next to a cliff face where we had our hand line set that helped us descend the ledge and onto the landslide wash where these two caves are located. After going to Cueva De Los Minerales, I entered the fissure cracked cave that seemed to be more of a...
