Beach Junquillal of Costa Rica



good day at the beach

From March 19 to the 26, 70 6^th graders went to very beautiful field trip to Costa Rica. The last days of the field trip we went to a campsite to the beach! We stayed at a beach called playa Junquillal. This beach is at 30 km from Santa Cruz and 20 km south from Tamarindo. This beach is found at the peninsula from the reserve of Guanacaste. Beach Junquillal in total is 3 km in diagonal, but it is very different from any other beach. If you would like to take walks this would be the best beach, but it’s not the best beach for swimming because it has very strong currents and little jellyfish that can sting you in the water.

In the beach we saw a lot of animals like raccoons. They are little creatures with grey fur and black eye patches around both of their eyes. In his tail they have black stripes at the bottom. They were very little and they were always taking the food from other people tent so its better if you don’t leave food inside you tent.

racoon enjoying a twix bar

Another animal that we all saw were crabs. We saw different sizes shapes and different colors. The best crab that all of the kids saw was the last days of the camp in the beach at night. He big and it had different colors like red on the top of his head and blue combined with purple at the bottom of his legs. It was really fascinating.

crab at the beach

We saw all these animals mostly when the sky was getting dark and all the animals will try to get out to take pictures or try to touch one of the raccoons or try to catch the crabs, and they also tried to take pictures of the different types of animals the different kids saw. But be careful because the animals could attack you if one of you tries to hurt them.

When we were at the beach it had a lot of different smells like water from the salty smells it has. And when we had to eat it smelled very good because of all the food the different groups were making, and when you arrived to the bathrooms it smelled like poop and pee because of the different people that were In the bathroom.

 What was also very surprising were the different sounds that you heard all day long at the beach. We heard the waves from the water crashing into the sand of the beach, and the hard winds that blew all day long. We also heard the different sounds of the monkeys, and the different birds at the beach.

In the end this field trip to costa rica is one of the best field trips that your son will ever have in the hole school year. PURA VIDA!

BY:  SANTIAGO SARMIENTO, FEDERICO GARZON, AND PABLO GUTIERREZ