INCOMPARABLE COCOS ISLAND
Cocos Island is one of the treasures of the planet. If you are a diver, this is Costa Rica adventure at its finest. The renowned Jacques Cousteau called this Costa Rica island the most beautiful island he had ever seen. Costa Ricans have declared this little national park one of its Seven Wonders. National Geographic describes it as one of the purest, healthiest, and most biologically diverse marine eco systems on earth with the highest concentration of big marine predators in the Pacific and the enormous number and variety of small fish and invertebrates. It is being considered as one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World.
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Though it is a small island located nearly 350 miles off the Costa Rica Pacific coast, it is world famous for its spectacular scuba diving. Indeed, its waters are filled with fish, porpoises, whales, and sea turtles, and there are sometimes so many sharks, it is often called Shark Island. Experienced scuba divers travel here from across the planet because it is renowned as the greatest place on earth to dive with large sea animals. See more here at BBC's
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The island is uninhabited except for a few Costa Rica park rangers who are stationed there to protect its waters from poaching. For eons its isolation safeguarded the island's rainforest and undersea creatures from exploitation. But, Are We Killing Cocos Island?But modern technology coupled with age old greed threatens this eastern Pacific treasury.Despite determined efforts of the good guys, the bad guys are threatening disaster. National Geographic Video: Are We Killing Cocos? Cocos Island Shark Finning DisgraceUnfortunately, modern day pirates also plunder its rich waters solely for shark fins----so that people can make soup. Its once isolated waters are now within the range of these criminals. Learn about Costa Rica shark finning here, click here Only a few lucky people get to visit Cocos and if you want to go ashore, you will need previous permission from the rangers. Overnight camping is forbidden.But, no matter. As you walk the shores, looking out over the great Pacific, your imagination can soar. You'll be walking the very shores that famous pirates hid buried treasure and you will not be alone. It is almost as if some of the stones themselves can talk for you are going to find rocks and boulders bearing the inscriptions of past sailors who left their moment of history behind, writing their names, the names of their ships and ports of call, even the dates. Sailors, long gone, forgotten to men but remembered by the rocks. Like Kilroy, they were here.
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