Arenal Kayaks Tours on Lake Arenal, Costa Rica

Apologies to our friends who have been used to daily lake cam updates. We've flown the coop for a short while. Only a couple of weeks, but the good news is that we'll be shopping for a real webcam so you don't have to depend on one of us remembering to go out and take a shot of the lake. At least that's the plan. We'll see what's available up here in the land of plenty...

The weather had taken a turn from bone dry since sometime in January to 3 days of near non-stop rain just before we left. Can't tell yet if this is an early onset of our rainy season which is usually like a switch being thrown on May 15th. Really, people just about synchronize their watches by this. Especially since, you know, there are only 2 times we notice here and if you ask most people what time is it, we'll answer either daytime or nighttime.

The lake level has been falling steadily during this dry spell. It's down probably 3-4 meters from the highest level of the season. Some beach, albeit muddy beach, is appearing around the shore so we'll be out looking for 2,000 year old artifacts again on our tours.

It doesn't seem like they're taking water out as fast as 2 years ago when the lake dropped radically. It's a more slow and steady drain. Some islands are returning into peninsulas and like I said, there's shoreline reappearing. This also means that some of the rivers that we have been paddling won't be navigable, at least not as far into the jungle.

So, hope you all aren't too disappointed about the lack of updates on the lake cam but we'll be back soon.