Surfing Games Vacation Discount!! Just a few weeks left until the much anticipated Billabong 2009 World Surfing Games. They will be held from August 1-8 just down the road from Del Pacifico in Playa Hermosa. This promises to be an unforgettable experience! Don't Wait to Hear About It From Someone Else! Contact Tim right away to plan your vacation for this exciting event. We are currently offering a 10% discount on weekly rentals for the Surfing Games.

Exciting New Costa Rica Website So, you just got back from Del Pacifico last week and already drank all of your coffee. Now, you could either wait until you go back down or you could use my new favorite website Costa Rica Superstore where you can buy coffee, rum, Salsa Lizano & a Saprissa jersey to mention a few of the items for sale. Bonus: they will ship anywhere worldwide! But, if you want our special Del Pacifico coffee, please be sure to email us!

Vonage Phones...It's no longer an international call form the US to Del Pacifico thanks to our new Vonage phone lines! We just installed them in the Town Center Office so please give Fernando & Jason a call at 410-800-4773 anytime to get the latest scoop about Del Pacifico!

Looking for a fun family outing? I highly recommend the Jungle Crocodile Safari Boat Tour on the Tarcoles River.  The tour is about a two hour long ride in a covered pontoon boat. Your bilingual guide who will teach you about the river and the different species of fuana living in it.

The estuaries have been good for pan size snapper. The other day I went with my family and we caught around 20! We released them all hoping to catch them again, but twice the size, in a few months. There have been mixed reports along the beaches. In Bejuco the fish (especially snook) have been feeding along shore but not biting anything thrown at them.


I talked to a couple guys yesterday and they said Playa Bandera has been very good and they have caught a number of fish- snapper, rooster, snook (a couple in the 40 pound range) and jacks. They have been using live bait (mullet) which you catch using casting nets along the surf. If you see a brown foam along the beach, this is released from the rivers and estuaries during the rainy season amongst this foam is the mullet which follows this foam around in the ocean to feed from. When you find this try to throw your net and hopefully you can catch your bait and start fishing.

In Esterillos Oeste a 44 pound snapper was caught by a local using a hand line in the surf at night with half a sardine with the head as bait. Night fishing is always productive for the large snapper along the beach.

I'd never given much thought to how a septic system worked. It's only really an issue when they STOP working. I wasn't even sure what could make a hole in the ground stop working until I was reviewing one of the options that Del Pacifico has started using in our construction. The following information is useful for any homeowner or potential homeowner.

The reason that septic systems fail is that the anaerobic bacteria that live in the septic system produce something called a "biomat" that prevents the passage of water and effluent thought the disposal field. The option that we've started using at Del Pacifico (it has been used in a custom home and is planned to be used in the Portofino Condos) is called he SludgeHammer. What this does is introduce a colony of (aerobic) bacteria, and oxygen. The system cycles the septic through the oxygen/bacteria, the end result being that the water is cleaned. We will cycle this clean water back through and it will be used in the toilets.