Much of our lack of blogging occurred during the week Matt and I spent on the very remote Rio San Juan (pictured above), which forms the border between Nicaragua and Costa Rica. The area had incredible wildlife, including the only freshwater man-eating sharks in the world (no joke, although the sharks start out as salt water sharks and swim up river from the Caribbean).
The area also has a very rich history in pirate lore and it was long looked at (before Panama) as the best way to open up a passage between the Pacific and the Atlantic. During the gold rush, going from New York south to the Caribbean side of the Rio San Juan, west on the river and then up the Pacific Coast to San Francisco was the shortest distance between the two cities and there is much California memorabilia in the area.
El Castillo, the fort above, served as a safe harbor for entrepreneurs headed for the gold rush in California and there´s an artist rendering of San Francisco in its museum that has Alcatraz shaped just like a Central American volcano.
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