PAGINA SEIS LA PRENSA LIBRE SABADO 26 de enero de 1957 Costa Rican Adventure in Camping, Hunting, Fishing Told by Flier on Vacation COSTA RICA visitors eager long trip. Guanacaste hacendado. should always be someone along cause of driving the wild game ing just in case a sudden gust of ilies enjoying vacations.
to satisfy an urge to hie away on not only gave them permission in case of an accident, a twisted into the back country.
wind, or a large wave, unexpect. Seeking refreshments in the hot a camping hunting. fishing expedito hunt on his land but also in ankle, or snake bite. One can walk The ideal hunting piece for Cosedly capsized their cayuco, there desert like towns of Liberia and tion in the Province of Guana vited them to use an adobe cabin mile after mile, day after day, in ta Rica game, Holst said, is the would be no bright colored morsel Cañas, they were offered one of caste should first check with the on the premises which had run. parts of the Guanacaste Province Drilling barrelled piece a com threshing about in the water to the popular libations there: graInstituto Costarricense Turismo ning water, a shower and an in without encountering another liv. bined double barrelled shotgun attract any of well teethed sub nizado con polvo de leche (shaved (ICT) in order to learn which of side toilet.
ing soul. An accident might leave and a rifle most efficiently styled marine forms which might be ice with powdered milk) which the vast hacienda (ranch) own. Most of Guanacaste has no elec. you at the mercy of your Maker into one stock. The right barrel some distance a way.
Holst said tasted pretty good.
ers welcome hunters. This was tricity, but there is kerosine just unless you had a companion a. has a modified choke; the left, a One day while fishing, a huge About 25 kilometers of the the advise of Capt. Carl Holst, about everywhere making a good long. snake bite victim might full choke; and centered beneath pelican. of which there are a new Interamerican Highway has Operations Manager for LACSA kerosine lantern an important need help in administering the se. the two shotgun barrels which great many along the shoreline been surfaced with asphalt, mak.
Airlines, who, with George André, part of the luggage on a long trip. rum which is a remider to take come in 16 or 12 gauge is an plummeted out of the sky, hitting ing a stretch of smooth riding, San José, gunsmith shop proprie More important, however, than snake bite antidote on the trip. mm rifle barrel. kind of switch water like a bomb from an air Holst also reported, adding that tor, vacationed all last week jeep even a kerosine lamp is an ice One member of the Holst party catch on the stock connects the plane, as pelicans do the world a good guide may be hired for Ing through Guanacaste with ri chest particularly if any fishing all but stepped on a slithering firing pin of the rifle to the first over, and gulped down the plug cio a day.
fles, rods and shotguns.
is contemplated.
snake squirming across the trail trigger of the shotgun.
at the end of one of their lines. The jungle hammock with in.
The basis of this advise is In the tropics fish can spoil al. and jumped back in alarm. An. Aside from ammunition, food Naturally, when the line was built mosquito bar and top of wa.
fold: most before they can be taken other member of the party quick and water, the most important hauled in, along came the pelican. terproofed cloth (in case of rain 1) Most of the property in Gua off the hook. They must be put ly blasted the serpent head to thing to have on hand in an ice It was one of the bigger ones, too, during the night) which can be nacaste is privately owned with onto ice immediately if they are smithereens with a 16 gauge load chest imperative if there is to be with a wing pread of about to strung between two trees or the holdings of from hundreds to tens to be fit to eat.
of bird shot as less than five any fishing. Holst said the ice in feet. With the huge bird quite walls of a shack which has no of thousands of acres; and large Fish. like gold and oil. are yards. The snake, minus head his box lasted two days after close to the boat, several sharp beds, is the most generally satis.
sections of game inhabited areas where you find them. The Pacific which had been blown to bits, which special trips for more ice jerks on the line revealed that factory, as well as comfortable are posted, prohibiting hunting shoreline is long and most sec. was a diamond backed rattler a had to be made in to Liberia the plug had been well swallowed, sleeping accommodation, Holst without special permission. tions are accessible to a jeep. At bout five feet long, and about Cañas where ice may be bought While conscientiously debating said, adding they sell in San José 2) Recent wanton killing of many beaches cayucos or small, three inches through the middle. on week days.
whether to kill the poor creature for about 125.
game especially deer has precip. native hewn or assembled, fish. Its tail carried seven rattles and Holst said he and André are to retrieve the plug a favorite It is also chilly enough, some itated a crack down by the Gov taling boats are available but it is a button. It was a strange yellow working on a small, semi portable plug, incidentally the pelican set nights, to need a blanket; and authorities who are said to be wise to bring along, your own ish color, as though it had recent deepfreeze box modified to oper. tled the debate by hooking the long sleeved shirts are better in planning closed seasons on some out board motor. Holst found a ly shed its skin. The snake was late on a kerosine unit for kero razor sharp, nail like claw on the the daytime because of the in.
game and hunting license require. HP engine weighing seventeen encountered about three o clock sine is one item of which there end of its beak onto the line and sects mostly flies and litle red ments.
pounds, quite satisfactory for in the afternoon, about five miles seems to be plenty almost severing it with one quick snap. ants which bite like blazes. It is 3) Carelessness on the part of these cayucos. Holst, however, from a dry wash in typical rat throughout Guanacaste.
The pelican then, lumbering slop also good to have an insect spray campers and hunters with fires had a word of warnig about the tle snake country.
Food requirements were made pily along, as pelicans do, took in the kit. Holst recommends and in leaving catte gates open, and in leaving cattle gates open, use of outboard motors in dusty 2 The day of the snake was the up of tinned goods mostly spag off on the next wave. Whether Ticles Off which, he said, holds its. ani daw me the weale land vara hetti or not securely closing them, aft: Guanacaste. Always strain all gas. only day of the week long vaca hetti. and rye bread and sal. Ji and rve bread and sal. It had a comfortable flight with potency much longer than many er passing through, has aroused oline through a handkerchief, or tion spent hunting. They saw two ami, the latter two items which a plug in its belly a plug secure others.
the wrath of the owners in the similar piece of cloth, as it goes white tailed deer, but they were keep very well, something but ly made with nine well barbed Tennis shoes are best for fishProvince.
into the motor tank or motor does and did not shoot at them. ter does not do satisfactorily fish hooks may never be known. ing: and boots for plodding Permission to camp and hunt, trouble will be inevitable. Tools, Had they seen a buck they would even in the ice chest. Fresh eggs The best catch of the entire through the bush.
however, is easily obtainable; as too, are a prime essential, Holst have bagged him, Holst said. At are plentiful in Guanacaste; and outing was the barracuda, pic All in all, prospective campers, the owners only want to know added. complete set for the out a water hole they found sign of the purest drinking water is to be tured in one of the accompany hunters and fishing fans would who is visiting their property and board, the jeep, and others of the saino, the at times ferocious wild had from green pipas (coconuts) photographs, which weighed 12 do well to make extensive in.
to caution the visitors about fires household variety, such as screw. pig which travels in herds, and which sell from 40 to 25 centavos. pounds.
quiries at the ICT before head.
and the cattle gates.
drivers, pliers, a hammer, and which when in great numbers 1For opening a pipa, or cutting They had no luck at surf casting for the first time into the Holst and André had packed such.
have been reported treeing many a trail through the bush, the best ing and did not start hauling in primitive hinterland of the fish Jungle hammocks along with the implement is a 16 Inch machete. any fish until they went out in and game country of Costa Rica.
rest of their gear in their well. sign posts, no road markers, and, The saíno is said to grow up to It will do just about anything an a boat.
loaded 1eep. but these went un frequently, no roads. It is there 30 or 40 pounds in weight, have 18 inch, or longer, machete will Prevailing winds are from the used throughout the entire week fore wise to engage a guide in protruding tusks, and have a dis do and is considerably less un Northeast, which is offshore a either Cañas or Liberia especial concerting characteristic of rapid. weildy.
long most of the Guanacaste coast, ly if any hunting is planned. ly and repeatedly gnashing their Fishing just beyond the surf, and therefore unwise to go too guide knows where the water teeth when they are alarmed; and, not more than a mile offshore, far out unless there is plenty of holes used by the game are, and to some people, this teeth chat Holst and André, between the two extra fuel to get back.
the trails leading to them. good, tering can be a little nerve chill of them, caught an average of 15 There was plenty of gas for experienced guide also knows ing. There were many white faced fish a day; including barracuda, the outboard motor and jeep at where there are good camping monkeys seen, too.
snapper, mackerel, jurel and gallo Liberia and Cañas, but it seems sites; and, too, where the fish Hunting plans were abandoned. rooster fish. to be quite scarce in La Cruz they have been taken lately.
Holst said, in favor of more tine Most of the fish ran about to day they were there; and because It is also extremely wise, Holst for fishing when it was decided pounds apiece except for a cou of the dust from other cars along said, to have a pocket compass that the game probably had been ple of baby sharks which occa the Interamerican Highway it is as it is very easy to get lost in driven far back into the interior sionally came in on one of their advisable to have a jeep which the hills when wandering a mere of the country and there was not ns. The largest shark caught has windows which can be quick few hundred yards from camp enough time to make such a trek. was about six feet long. But their ly slid shut.
and always have a well filled can. It was reasoned that in addition arger ones which frequent. Few people were encountered teen. In the bush there is no wa. to the recent wanton killing of ly came nosing about under their along the northwestern shoreter, period. And the tropical sun game before restrictions were in bo lines of Guanacaste, except at Pla.
is the hottest.
posed, the opening of the Inter. Because of the occasional pres. Iya del Coco, a bathing resort popIn the first place it is most un american Highway with its everence of sharks, they had been ad. ular with weekenders, where wise to hike about alone. There increasing traffic was the chief vised to wear dark colored cloth there were a few German fam.
Poland Seeks Honorable Compromise on Frontier with Germany Andre with waving furel.
By HEMEN RAY mulka is now searching for an The source said that however, The Older Neisse line gives Po Holst toch 12 16. barracuda. honorable compromise with Ger before arriving at any compromise land about 40, 000 square miles, BERLIN, 26. INS. The Po many on the disputed Oder Neisse with Germany, the Polish Gov once lived in by 10, 000, 000 Ger.
lish Gov led by Wladyslaw Go frontier, a highly authoritative Po. would demand a guarantee of the mans. Now there are only about lish source disclosed.
Oder Neisse frontier by the US 1, 000, 000 people left.
The Polish source told INS that Gov Poland took over the area in the Polish Gov is now working The Polish Gov would also 1945 under the provisions of the Reported yesterday in Spanish on such a compromise plan, like to build up cultural and ec Yalta Agreement. Several times He indicated that in exchange onomic relations with the Fed since 1945, the Polish Commun.
of Germany permanent recogni eral Republic, the source said. ist Gov declared the Oder Neisse No Resignation Planned tion of the oder Nelsse frontier, Regarding the Oder Neisse line frontier as the permanent border the Polish Gov might be will the Polish Gov would like to between Germany and Poland.
COSTA RICA Minister of ing to return certain cities to Ger have a de facto recognition by The East German puppet regime conomy Soley has refuted all rum.
many which are now under Po West Germany pending the set echoed the Polish slogan and iors that he has any intention of lish occupation.
tlement, the source said. called it peace frontier.
resigning.
Beer of Beers US Leaders in Europe Urge Support of Britain on Cyprus, France in Algeria Imperial to Spark NATO Politics Write French to Study Projects PLANS of Costa Rica various Public Works projects to be un.
derwritten with a French loan are to be studied in San José next By HOWARD HANDLEMAN eral that Turkey is only 40 miles. In fact, it would take a full week at the Public Works Minaway and Turkey is one of the three years of hard effort and lry by a group of PARIS, 26. INS. High rankdistry by a group of French bankmost staunch members of the great expenditure on the sandy Jers, engineers the sanduers, engineers and technicians ing US military leaders in Eur Western Alliance, ope want the US to support Britplateau of Turkey to develop the who are expected here for that ain on Cyprus and France in Al Yes, the General replied, but communications lines and base specific purpose.
geria, there is nothing in that part of facilities that now exist on Cy.
The Generals are convinced a Turkey to compare with the great prus.
New Liquor Tax Looms both areas are essential to Free base the British have developed We can afford a three year World security. They also are conon Cyprus.
setback.
COSTA RICA is to impose a vinced the US is paying too high new excise tax on all alcoholic a price for its anti colonial symbeverage in order to raise funds pathies.
for increases in salaries of Gov From the viewpoint of some of PU HOWARD HANDLEMAN employes, which increases are By HOWARD HANDLEMAN Jual delegations to it disagree with called for in the new so called mal delegations to itd the most highly placed US Gen.
the gloomy prophets who think Salary Law.
erals in Europe the situation is: PARIS, 26. INS. Political of NATO is falling apart. There has IN ALGERIA: If France is ficers of NATO are banking on been a rash of such prophecy durousted by UN action, by the reb that old politician Paul Henri ſing recent days.
WANTED els or by economic or military Spaak to put new life in their One official said: Sure, we ve fatigue, the Russians move in. outfit.
got problems. wouldn be honest Unattached ton General said. We cer. Spaak, the politician, takes over with you if claimed NATO was tainly wouldn move in to fill this Spring from Lord Ismay, the thriving and booming.
Newspaperwoman the vacuum and the Algerians military man, as Sec y Gen of But the direction now is right.
would have to have help from the No. Atlantic Treaty Organiza: There is more and more consultation. After a while, there will be somewhere. It would be Russia, tion.
Apartado 3911 without question, although for al Political officers stressed that the habit of consultation, which San José, Costa Rica while Russian intervention might with Spaak come new powers and is what we are after.
be through a third party.
a new kind of task.
ON CYPRUS: The Free World Lord Ismay was made Sec yhas no other base in the eastern Genl at the beginning when the Mediterranean and must depend need was military. Now, the politon Cyprus in case of emergency.
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