Water Activities

Best Beaches

Jet-Skiing

Kayaking (Ocean, Atlantic)

Kayaking (Ocean, Pacific)

Para Sailing

Sailboarding

SCUBA Diving (Atlantic)

SCUBA Diving (Pacific)

Sport Fishing (Atlantic)

• Check out Silver King Lodge by Golfito (in the same area as our Osa/Golfo Dulce feature)
• or
• Silver King Lodge East Coast
• Big Al's Sportfishing
  
  

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  Sport Fishing (Pacific)

  Try Coco, Guanacaste, or Quepos in the south central.

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  Sport Fishing (River/Lake)

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  Surfing

  Caribbean

  • Manzanillo - A very fast beach break located 30 km from Puerto Viejo. Best place to stay - Villa Paradiso.
  • Puerto Viejo - Thick and voluminous wave coming from deep water onto a shallow reef, also called "Salsa" for its juicy power. This place gets very big and tubular. Best place to stay - Villa paradiso.
  • Black Beach Cahuita - An excellent beach break, not well known and therefore not heavily visited. Year 'round waves.
  • Westfalia - A stretch of beach breaks extending south from Limon to Punta Cahuita, offering lefts and rights that tend to close out where the swell gets to large.
  • Playa Bonita - A point/reef known for its very thick, powerful and dangerous left.
  • Poout where the swell gets to large.
  • Playa Bonita - A point/reef known for its very thick, powerful and dangerous left.
  • Portete - Small bay south of Playa Bonita with a right working off the southerly point.
  • Isla Uvita - Island off the coast of Limon with a good but dangerous left.
  • North Caribbean Coast - Good beach break accessible via the Tortuguero channels or by private plane.

  North Pacific Coast

  • Potrero Grande - A right point break with very fast and hollow waves.
  • Playa Naranjo - (Witch's Rock) = One of the best breaks in the country, with very strong off-shore winds from December to March.
  • Playa Grande = Beach break.
  • Playa Tamarindo - 3 main points: Pico Pequeno, rocky point in front of the Hotel Tamarindo - El Estero, an excellent river mouth break, and; Henry's Point, another rock point break.
  • Langosta - A right and left point break that curls off the mouth of a small river.
  • Avellanas - Good beach break.
  • Playa Negra - A right point break with very fast waves.
  • Nosara - Beach break, with lefts and rights.
  • Playa Coyote, Manzanillo, Mar Pais - Beach breaks with very consistent lefts and rights and several points.

  Central Pacific Coast

  Central Pacific Coast

  • Boca Barranca - A river mouth with a very long left
  • Puerto Caldera - Very good left called "Jetty Break".
  • Playa Tivies and Valor - Variety of waves from beach breaks.
  • Playa Escondida - Point break that peaks up forming a good left and surfable right.
  • Playa Jaco - Can be good beach break when the surf is not too big. Tends to close out when it gets over 5 ft.
  • Playa Loca - A rocky point with rights a and lefts that break over submerged rocks.
  • Playa Hermosa - Very strong beach break. Peaks working on any given day, but the preferred sand bar is located in front of a large tree known as the Almendro. The wave conditions are generally best when the tide is rising.
  • Esterillos Este, Esterillos Oeste, Bejuco - Beach breaks, good wave forms.
  • Boca Damas - Many Point Breaks.

  South Pacific Coast

  • Quepos - Small left point.
  • Playita Manuel Antonio - Beach break - lefts and rights with good shape.
  • Playa El Rey - Right and LEft beach breaks peaks.
  • Playa Dominical - Good, strong beach break with lefts and rights
  • Drake's Bay Area - Long powerful waves when swell is running.
  • Pavones - Excellent left point, considered one of the longest in the world. Good shape and very fast.
  • Punta Burica - Very remote reef breaks.

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  Punta Burica - Very remote reef breaks.

Swimming

• Puntarenas - (port)
• Limon - (port)
• Golfito - (port)
• The Mouths of ANY River - (Crocs)
• In any river - (Crocs)... they are NOT everywhere... but unless you know for certain...

Water Skiing

White Water Rafting/Kayaking

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