Travel & Living

When change becomes a teacher

Fish were his livelihood. Not just his: generations of fisherman, fathers and grandfathers, had plumbed the waters off of Quepos, working their way south to Bahía Ballena. He grew up hoping, assuming, that these Pacific waters would sustain his descendents, too. Then a national park was created, not just on land but the ocean. The […]

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