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[quote=”DavidCMurray”][quote=”Versatile”]I have never seen one in Missouri.[/quote]
No, it’s not likely you would. The Mississippi flows too slowly to create rip currents even among its many sandbars. You’ve probably seen eddies, however, so you’re not forgotten.
Come to Costa Rica, though, and you’ll have many opportunities to fill in the gaps in your experience.[/quote]
I have been to the beach at Manuel Antonio, Tambor and Montezuma. I live on the west side of Mo. in Kansas City. I have gone over mean looking whirlpools on the Mo. river in our houseboat. A friend went over one and his fish finder said 160ft deep.
[quote=”DavidCMurray”][quote=”Versatile”]I have no idea at all as how to recognize a Rip Current[/quote]
. . . and that’s my point.[/quote]
I have never seen one in Missouri.
[quote=”DavidCMurray”]As a preschooler, my father and I used to go to Atlantic City, NJ (a very different place in the early 1950s) in the summer to visit his parents. While there, we always went to the beach. Neither of us could swim, but we always went out into the waves to bob around. “Foolhardy”? “Insane”? Arguably, yes to both, but who knew? It might be said that my father wasn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer, but he wasn’t a complete idiot either.
Many of the folks who come to Costa Rica’s coasts, likewise, don’t have a firsthand knowledge of what they may be getting into and, until they’re in over their heads (literally) they have no basis for appreciating the risks. Nor do most of them have the background to either recognize a rip current when they see it (do you?) or to react rationally. I’ll bet that most WLCR.com VIP Members can’t even define just what a rip current is or how it’s created. Sadly, putting up warning signs simply doesn’t answer all the questions.
We had this same problem on the beaches of North Carolina’s Outer Banks where we lived before coming to Costa Rica. Plenty of rip currents. Lots of warnings. And a few drownings every y
If you put enough people into enough water, odds are somebody’s going to get into trouble.[/quote]
I have no idea at all as how to recognize a Rip Current
I thought i posted a story about my nephew in CR.Must have done something wrong because it isn’t here!
Anyway: My nephew was going to turn out to be a bum. While in CR my nephew wound up broke and walking forever in the rain. A Tico family invited him in out of the rain just at dark. He spent the night with them and was ashamed to eat their food( he did) because he could tell they had very little of anything at all. After that night he said his life changed. He saw what a spoiled brat he was and how his troubles were nothing to what the Ticos he met were facing daily.
My nephew is now a married father of two kids and has a great job repairing giant screen Tv’s in stadiums and churches.
He owes a lot of it to the experience he had in CR and has told me so.Before all the new stuff and back in the late 70’s and 80’s i use 5% Sevin dust for tomato’s etc. Works great when they have a bunch of ticks in the ears.
[quote=”Scott”]I may be looking in the wrong place in your links ‘Versatile’ but I don’t see anythong relevant to the question posted…
Scott
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My mistake! Sorry.
[quote=”costaricabill”]Maybe I am not using the search engine properly, but before I ask this question please be aware that I searched and searched with no luck.
Last year or 2010, several people mentioned a lady’s name and phone number at the Dept. of Immigration that is very helpful looking up the status of your file. If anyone can direct me to those discussions or provide me with her name and phone number I would be greatly appreciative.
Gracias![/quote]
This might have the info you need.
http://www.visajourney.com/http://www.visajourney.com/forums/forum/110-ir-1-cr-1-spouse-visa-process-procedures/
[quote=”sprite”][quote=”GEEGEE”]Thank you.
Yes it is a shame, that this country is getting rated
high for this kind of behavior, child abuse and sex
with BABIES/Children. Sorry, for my ignorance on this issue but is prostitution legal here?
They have a license/health card/and they are organized by the government?
Does this include the children that are in the these Broths,
also. Does the C.R. government sanction that is is ok for children also? Like the Phillip’s?[quote=”GEEGEE”]I am told prostitution is legal in Costa Rica. I have no problem with consenting adults doing whatever they wish with each other as long as it doesn’t inconvenience me too much or happen in public. But when you have all of these emotionally and sexually retarded and broken adults from the legally repressive US culture coming to CR to pay for sex, you are bound to attract others with more egregious appetites and behaviors.[/quote]
Sprite i think you are wrong. I have been to CR ten times and some of my friends many more and there is usually about 6-7 guys in our group. We go all over CR and get around. I have seen pick pockets in action and people shot dead lying in the streets and we have been to many bars and never once has anyone mentioned that,or we were ever approached for child sex or even had it mentioned or even offered in passing as to be checking us out. I agree there are many perverts in the USA but i doubt the Gringo is the problem. i suspect Tico/Nica involvement. Let’s take a good look at that pimp mayor Marvilla speaks of.
I myself am very proud to have had the opportunity to hold a stun gun to the neck of a pedophile here in the states back in the late 80’s.About 75 people saw and heard what i had to say and he left town after that.[quote=”Versatile”]This mornings front page Of We Love Costa Rica has a photo of a Gyrocopter in Cr.
Any info on this aircraft? Rides available?[/quote]Doh! Answered my own question. All i had to do was scroll down.
The price is way out of my league. And over priced . imoSure would be nice that for every Gloom and Doom,the sky is falling etc. etc. we see a post on a town in CR or about the customs of CR etc. More content about Costa Rica is what i desire. I can read all about the USA and the world at thousands of other internet sites.
I can see the benefit of threads about how taxation etc affects expat’s.I come to this forum to read about Costa Rica. The other stuff turns me away. I would rather read road directions than the drivel.
[quote=”Scott”]Wow! You are one hombre muy afortunado to have been able to catch a puma on video and it looks so calm too … Congratulations!
Scott
PS. I don’t think Dominical ever has “lots” of tourists but Monteverde would certainly have a lot more …[/quote]
Animal researchers are getting Puma and Jaguar photos using a GAME CAMERA and Calvin Klein Obsession Cologne as bait!
[quote=”bradbard”]In case you missed the latest news on the increased militarization of the police forces in the U.S.
Houston SWAT Operators Get Their Own Airborne Drone Weapons Platform.
http://www.click2houston.com/news/29619788/detail.html
“… the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) could be used in hunting criminals who are running from police or assessing a scene where SWAT team officers are facing an active shooter.”
According to data from the National Safety Council Estimates in the U.S. you are eight times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist so, you can imagine how those numbers are going to change when every Police department gets their own drones…
“We’re not going to use it to be invading somebody’s privacy. It’ll be used for situations we have with criminals.”
I feel sooooo much safer now don’t you?
Freedom is long gone in the U.S. Get out while you still can.[/quote]
How about a link: According to data from the National Safety Council Estimates in the U.S. you are eight times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist
