Thanks to a great turnout of volunteers on February 6, reference markers have been placed every 50 meters along Playa Guiones from the northern end down to Bakers Beach. You are invited to meet on Saturday, March 12, at 7:30 am, at the Baker’s Beach entrance to Playa Guiones (near Nosara Beach Hostel) to help […]
In 1970 my family lived in San Jose, where my husband David was the Deputy Director of the Peace Corps in Costa Rica. A Peace Corps volunteer assigned to Nosara rode into San Jose on horseback — the Peace Corps forbid the use of motorcycles — and said, “The beach is gorgeous, and there’s a
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Update: The project to empty our landfill is on hold because Aurora de CR, the present collector from Nicoya, had to expand its routes during this high season, leaving no time to come to Nosara. The Recycling Association is discussing other options with Microsan, the company that now collects garbage in Nosara. If all goes
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We have big plans for the Nosara Trails project: Signs, apps, benches, and more. First, watch for the signs and trail markers, being installed in the next few weeks. Soon you’ll see these signs everywhere on the Nosara Trails Our future plans include a phone app so you’ll always know where you are on the
Read on to see what you can do right now. The turtles like our beach! In the month of January alone, TORTUGuiones volunteers logged 9 reported sightings of hatchlings, 2 sightings of nesting females at Guiones central, and sightings of 5 other nests between Pelada and Guiones. This is likely an underestimate because not all
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Once a month we’ll feature recollections from earlier in NCA’s history, as told by people who lived here then. We begin with Bobbi Johnson’s Nosara origin story, along with photos from even earlier. HOW DID I GET TO NOSARA? by Bobbi Johnson My husband and I had been living on a sailboat, and after 11
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There’s good news to start the new year – Nosara’s trash is beginning to disappear! After years of conversations, proposals, and projects to solve our solid waste problem, on January 7 the first 12 tons of trash left the Nosara dump. Local businesses are paying the cost of hauling it away, and the Municipality of
You can now walk, run, bike or ride your horse from the town of Nosara to Esperanza on trails that bring you closer to nature and keep you off Route 160’s traffic and dust. The Senderos de Nosara (Nosara Civic Trail System) combines quiet neighborhood roads and nature trails into an 18-km network that passes
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NCA would like to introduce you to two of our partner organizations: BarriGuiones and TORTUGuiones. The beach is becoming greener: notice the saplings planted all along the dunes. These plantings are the work of BarriGuiones, a community reforesting project begun in May 2011, The project is an offshoot of Costas Verdes – a nonprofit NGO
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