white water raftng el rio pacuare

I basically thought that I was going canoeing the weekend I went white water rafting, I figured it wouldn't be hardcore white water rafting like the pros. I was wrong! It was so much fun and so beautiful. It was a day long trip and my whole independent group of students from the states went together. My raft was a crazy bunch of loonies with an awesome raft guide (insert name here...woops, I forgot his name)-he was a great instructor and made the whole day a lot of fun. He would shout Go and Stop when it was time to paddle and we couldn't understand him in English so we had him switch to Spanish. We stopped and climbed some rocks up to a camp ground to eat lunch and when we returned to raft we got to float through a lagoon like stream. We all got off our rafts suited in our gear and floated on our backs looking up at the sky. The lagoon we were floating in had to large boulders on either side of it very high up so the lagoon was like a cave with a tiny stream of light shining through the top. The lagoon was a greenish blue with little waterfalls spitting out of the rock...which made for a really cool and calming atmosphere. There were also little footbridges and cables with baskets going from one boulder to the other that the indigenous people still send objects and people over on at the top of the rock. It is like a little pulley system, and unfortunately we didn't see any indigenous people using the system while we were there.
The rapids on the river were really great because they were spaced out enough so that we could stop and take a dip from time to time before getting back in the raft. What a rush. White water rafting in Costa Rica. :)

Notice I am the one with the goofy faces in the very back of the raft, left hand side.