OJo de Agua

The sun rises at 5, and even on a Saturday breakfast is finished by 7. As I was eating, I was told we going for a paseo at 8.30. At 9.30 a truck full of children arrived, and we climbed aboard - we even took the parrot.We were on our way (and the way was very rough) to an ojo de aqua, which turned out to be a spring-fed swimming pool near the sea. The water was clear and warm and contained little fish that seemed to find me tasty. The children loved it.The pool drained into a creek, and as the water in the creek rose two dugout canoes appeared laden with wood to be cut up for firewood.
That was at Tempisque, and two weeks later just the family went to the bigger swimming hole at Campuzano. Rosa came, as did Kristin - a Peace Corps volunteer who is halfway through her 2 year stay!. This time we didn't take the parrot.
Campuzano has 3 pools - the first deep enough to dive in with very few fish, the second larger and warmer with lots of fish, and the third a smaller shallower padding pool. It was really quite an idyllic spot and in the warm water you could easily forget that the sun was very strong.
As you can see from the photo of Framvi, there were lots of fish in the big pool. For some reason they found my flesh very tasty - especially my shoulder blades. It's quite a nip when they bite, but strangely they didn't seem to find anyone else quite to their taste.
Rosa had no problem with the fish, but she has with mosquitoes.Now you would think my B rh.negative blood, being somewhat rare, would be like champagne to mosquitoes, but  thankfully they seem to like common fare.