In mid November, my wife and I traveled to the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica.
We had some time to kill before the room at the Palms Motel was ready.
The Chef, Paulo, told us to go and see the Crocodiles, but we got lost and ended up in the Preciosa Platanares Reserve on Playa Platanares, not far from Puerto Jimenez.
We headed down the deserted beach on the Golfo Dulce and I stumbled upon this:
It was a Banana plant that had washed up on the shore and had what looked like a healthy pup. It had likely been there a month or so. What was left of the mother plant was horizontal on the sand and the pup was growing strait up towards the sun. What do you think I did as a learned participant of Bananas.org?
I cut that sucker off and looked for a place to plant it.
I found an old coconut shell and scooped out a hole in a sunny place well above the high tide line.
The soil didn't look great, but there is plenty of rain there. I suspect this young fella will do just fine in his new home.
This just goes to show you that you never know what will wash up on Plantain Beach!