Jaco Costa Rica Magazine

Here at Jaco hotel DoceLunas we are a mile from the south end of the beach and guests often walk down for sunset or catch a quick cab ride. I have been down at the beach for sunset every day this month, paddling my stand up paddle board and, if conditions permit, surfing. Tonight was a particularly lovely sunset, considerably enhanced by the A GIANT WHALE BREACHING more than half out of the water in the mouth of Jaco bay about 400 meters off shore. It was magnificent! A friend of mine got a photo that will be putting up soon. (Its not zoomed in, so the whale is just a silhouette on the horizon, but you can see how far out it was and the flipper is extended.

The surf has been very small here, even for this time of year which is the smaller time of year. Ok for beginners, a major disappointment for experts, but then most experts don’t plan a short surf trip to Costa Rica in January because they know there is a possibility of a skunking and beginner conditions everywhere.

With the small swell, there is less churning of the near shore sand and consequently much better visibility, so I am sure divers are pretty stoked and the fish seem unsually attracted to Jaco bay as well. The flat surface in the morning has allowed me to locate many large schools of fish as well as larger solitary predator fish and occasional instersections of the two, when the water starts to boil with activity and the fish start to fly around all over the place. I also saw a spotted eagle ray, which are seen in Hermosa down by Tulin fairly often but are quite rare in Jaco.