Final day in Playa Santa Teresa

As today is my final day in Playa Santa Teresa I decided to get up early, enjoy my free breakfast...this is nice to have. During breakfast I chatted with a couple from the US/Canada and got some good tips on travelling to Playa Hermosa tomorrow. I headed to the beach at around 9am and spent the good part of the morning there. There are lots of beautiful shells on the beach during low tide and I even found a sand dollar!! Today the surf is much smaller than it has been the past few days. It is low tide and there is much more of a breeze. I saw a couple women getting surfing lessons...I think I would have been brave enough to try surfing today, but I guess it was not meant to me. Since the waves were not as big, I was able to finally get in the water a bit more and cool off...this was such a treat. The wind picked up around noon...sand was actually blowing in my face...so I went to the hostel to have a bit of lunch. I decided to walk towards town to try and find a shop I was at yesterday, but for some reason I was not able to find it. After walking about an hour along the road, I decided it was too hot and heading along a road to the beach. I had never been to this end of the beach before and it was even more beautiful...lots of photo opportunities. The sand was much finer at this end...almost like home. The tide was coming in, so the beach was not as deep. Since this is the Easter holiday, there are lots more locals here now. Many of them camp out along the beach or at one of the campgrounds in town. I arrived back at the hostel around 4pm...very tired and hot and decided to book the shuttle to Santa Cruz tomorrow. You need two people to book the shuttle and since no one else was travelling onward to Liberia, they said they would take me to a drop off point along the way and I could get public transport from there on. Not exactly what I wanted, but since the ferry is still not working very well and it would take me five transfers and about 12 hours...if all worked out on the public bus system...I decided I would fork out the $45 and take the shuttle part way. It was a long day today in the sun and I was very tired, so I watched one more sunset on the beach and later hung out with some of my roommates at the hostel. Even shared a bit of watermelon with Vilma...YUMMY!! Maybe I should have tried some yoga to relax, it is available everywhere here...goes well with the surfing I guess. One of my Tico roommates went to the supermarket today and bought me some Lizano Salsa as a gift. This is a sauce that I was told to buy that Ticos use on almost everything they eat. Can not wait to try it!!!! So I am heading onward to Playa Hermosa tomorrow and am interested in seeing what the day brings. Until then....