Second Trip - November 2002

	Drove to La Fortuna and stayed near the Arenal volcano. This is the Arenal Lake that provides a third or more of the electric power for Costa Rica.
	This is a picture from out side the hotel room; the 4wd vehicle is the one I rented. The volcano is in the back but covered for the most part. The weather was overcast and rainy all the time and I didn't see the volcano, however, the 2nd night I heard a 'boom' and saw some pink lava flowing down - I sat in a chair in the porch and watched several eruptions and lava flow for the next two hours. I could hear a muffled eruption at times and lava rocks hitting rocks several times.
	This is a picture from the hotel's web page taken from a little behind my room and to the left - there are actually two volcanoes, one erupts this side and the other - on the back of the first volcano towards the other side.
	Drove to Quepos next - this is beach 2 in Manuel Antonio national park.
	There are a lot of hiking trails in the park and some of them meet at beach 3, where they have picnic tables and of course monkeys.
			Another monkey beach 3.
	On one of the hikes I came across these ants carrying pieces of leaves.
	On another hike, you get to a lookout point where you can see this beach (not accessible by foot.)
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