Boquete by Scooter

Today was for the record books. How much can one cover via scooter? The answer? A boat load.

After picking up our sweet rides we headed up to a privately owned garden that is graciously opened to the public for our enjoyment. We tooled around for a bit checking out the coy ponds and beautiful flowers before moving on.

The scoot crew up high above the garden.

Garden
Beautiful Bougainvillea
The scoot crew again. Look how happy we are on our big adventure.

Our next stop was the 'castle' that our Aussie boys wanted to check out. But first we made a stop at an old stand by.

Nadia and the boys continuing our adventure in style.

Nads wanted to climb up further and with the help of the rock climbers she was able to do it.

Back on the road we rode our way up to the 'castle'. This castle is more like an abandoned ostentatious house that was fun to climb through.

Trespassers walking up to the castle.

I had a nice view from the balcony.

It took a village to get me up to the roof but I made it. Of course it also took a village to get me down.

I could handle the fence on my own though.

We headed up to get a view of the volcano next. John almost lost me off the back of the bike when we had to go offroading for a short part of the road. Pretty scary even if we were only going 5 miles and hour.

But the view was worth it.

Jim and Nadia looked like real pros. I think it was Jim's sunglasses.

Poor John had to deal with me and my motorcycle crash fears instilled in me from an early age by my dad. Thanks dad, but notice I wore a helmet the whole time. Are you proud?

And I looked gooood in that helmet too. I think it's the sunglasses.

We then set out for our final stop. The hot springs. Now I know what you're thinking, hot springs in a tropical climate, not too refreshing. Well Boquete is actually pretty high and a nice dip in some warm water was going to feel great. Unfortunately the closer we rode to the springs the higher the temperature rose. So yes you are right, it wasn't really refreshing. But it was beautiful none the less.

The owners were local Indians and had the place very beautifully taken care of.

The scoot crew at the hot spring. We actually hiked down to the river and cooled off and sat at the confluence of the hot spring stream outlet and the river water, not what was refreshing.

Nads and Hillary just chilling at the springs.