The Different Path

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how the Condofish blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 8,400 times in 2010. That’s about 20 full 747s. [...]

A big reef thank you to Hotel El Velero in Playa Hermosa for their support in the artificial reef project.  Your contribution has helped the project greatly. If you’re a fishy in need of an underwater apartment, the Hotel now has affordably priced fish condos! For human’s looking for a place to stay, the Hotel [...]

In regards to the burned out shrimp boat wrecked on the shore of Playa Hermosa, the community, Playa Hermosa Association and the CondoFish Team got together at Aquasport to find a solution on moving the wreck and cleaning up the beach.  The first step was cleaning up the trash, ship fragments and barrels left over [...]

Thank you Pure Travel Costa Rica for supporting the Playa Hermosa Artificial Reef Project.  We took some pictures of your newly constructed fish condo.    Also thank you for the blogging support at www.puretravelcostarica.com . Here are the shots: “Pure Travel Costa Rica S.A. specializes in vacation rentals in the Golfo de Papagayo area (Playas del [...]

In the coming weeks we’ll be posting pictures of some our sponsors of the artificial reef project. One of our earliest supporters was Remax Tres Amigos in Playa Hermosa, Guanacaste. They’ve been selling real estate for years to humans above the surface and decided to check out the market under the sea.  The economic downturn hasn’t [...]

After long days with numerous hours underwater, using personal gear, funding from the Playa Hermosa Association, aid from the municipality and from our own pockets, the Shipwreck operation is at a standstill. Two weeks ago the CondoFish team did successfully move a large section of the wreck (roughly the size of a panga) from the sea floors and sink it [...]

A hearty Congratulations to James and Michelle who are getting married this month Dec 2010!  James just purchased a fish condo in the CondoFish community as a gift for his lovely finance. Property prices are on the rise in Costa Rica; wise purchase James. Thank you for supporting the reef James.  Enjoy married life and………..Pura Vida! Also [...]

After numerous man hours of underwater work this weekend the rear and heaviest section of the wreck floated 1-2 meters off the ground.  The front and lighter portion was still lodged in the sand.  We did move the wreck 5 meter to the west.  We are confident that on the 2nd attempt this week with [...]

Friday afternoon at 2pm (Today), the CondoFish team will begin attaching the hard-wear and ropes to the wreck so that the 20-30 55 gallon drums can be attached.  If all goes according to plan, all of the barrels should be attached and resting underwater by the end of Saturday. Shipwreck Party Sunday afternoon we should have the [...]

This Saturday, November 20th, the first phase of the 70 foot shipwreck recovery in Playa Hermosa was completed.  After 3 hours of difficult underwater work, in low visibility and turbulent conditions, the wreck piece surfaced.  This first part of the boat wreck needed nine air filled 55 gallons barrels to float.  The CondoFish team used 14 air [...]