Arenal Kayaks Tours on Lake Arenal, Costa Rica

Been quite a few visitors to the Lake Cam page lately which I find encouraging. Enough that the plan to purchase a webcam could be moved up on the list.

But, no, really, I do update the photo every day. It might not appear that way lately as the photos are looking fairly consistent from day to day. The reality is the weather has been very nice for quite a few days now. Unusual for this time of year, our "summer" doesn't usually arrive until mid to late February.

There are most always clouds moving across the sky but we haven't had a drop of rain for several days. Can't recall when the last rain occurred. Almost drought conditions for our part of Arenal. We rarely pass more than 3-days without some amount of rainfall. Keeps our jungle nice and green.

As you may have noticed from the light, the lake shots are being taken in the morning, around 8am here. The camera is pointing almost due south from our location giving a view more or less down lake toward Rio Chiquito (and Monte Verde). On the other side of that point you can see in the photo, on the other side of the lake, is the mouth of the river. At that point, the lake bends left and continues on down to the volcano. This is our best shot of the lake from here and you can see that there is a fair amount of jungle between us and the lake even though we're less than 100m from the shore. For some reason, I can see much more of the lake with the naked eye than the camera reveals.

The volcano is not visible from our location closer to lake level but we've heard it blow several times in the past week or so. On our last visit to the base of the volcano, about a week ago, we were rewarded with a serious blow and huge lava flows after sunset.

And, yes, we've been paddling even though there's been little to report here for your entertainment. Fairly breezy most of the time but not too rough on the water. The lake has receded about 1/2 meter from it's peak level and we don't expect to see it increase anytime soon as our dry season appears to have arrived. They'll be draining the water off at a steady clip to feed the rice farms down in the lowlands so we'll start to see some beach showing up before long. Not all bad. Even though it's fun to explore places that fill at high water, it's also nice to beach the boats and explore the shoreline for 2,000 year old artifacts revealed from the erosion of waves. Or for those of us with old stiff bones it's nice just to stand up after an hour or so in the boat. Not so bad in the sit-on-top kayaks which are easy to get into after a swim but for the Great Auk you really need some place to beach it to get back in. Of course getting out is not a problem anywhere, just not desirable in most cases.

On another note, traffic on the site has picked up lately and we appreciate you stopping by to visit. Please feel free to leave a comment or send us an email to info at arenalkayaks.com if you want more information on the area.

Thanks for visiting.