From the Restoring Our Watershed blog Guanacaste, Costa Rica, is known for its starkly contrasting seasons, alternating between six months of hot, dry weather and six months of consistent rain and humidity. This year, the first rains of the season were light sprinkles in early April. As we begin May, dark clouds are prevalent and late afternoon …

Summer in Costa Rica is glorious! After the rainy season months of storms and mud, the skies clear up and the sun shines intensely…for the next several months! While it usually takes a few weeks for the ocean to clear up from all the runoff caused by the rain, when it does the clear blue …