From local tourist magazine about Nosara

From Del Sol Magazine November 2005

The local communities welcome you to the Beaches of Nosara, a very special place in a very special country. It’s a place of natural beauty, forest setting, unspoiled beaches and friendly neighbors. There is no place quite like it in Central America.

Between 1969 and 1972, Alan Hutchinson purchased three fincas (farms) of pasture land totaling 1,110 hectares (2,718 acres) in Nosara, a small farming and cattle raising community with no grocery store nor all-weather direct roads to the outside world. Hutchinson started “The Project” subdividing the land into 700 building sites, with ocean or mountain views planned for forest preserves, parks, commercial zones, sports center, tennis courts and an 18-hole golf course but it never came to fruition.

North of us is the Ostional Turtle Refuge where the Olive Ridley turtles nest (sometimes up to 100,000 turtles laying eggs in one night called “arribada.”). In 1985 the Refuge ws extended south to include Playa Nosara, Pelada, and Guiones through much effort on the part of NCA. The Refuge now protects 200 meters of the 14 kilometers of the beaches of Ostionel, Nosara, Pelada and Guiones, totaling 352 hectares of land and 8000 hectares of ocean.

Over the years, life has become much easier for new arrivals. We now have a good water system, good national electricity, passable roads (most of the time), telephones, doctors, etc.

Newcomers do not know what a struggle it was, and continues to be, to maintain what we have. Before the roads were built, building materials arrived by boat and were then transported to the sites by ox cart. Fresh vegetables came once a week if lucky and most goods had to be brought from the States or San Jose. There were no hardware stores closer than a three-hour drive to Nicoya, crossing 21 rivers and streams. Electricity was provided a few hours a day by generators.

Most lot owners are in Nosara because of the abundant wildlife and tranquility that surrounds ups and because we share respect for our natural hosts and their habitat. Unique to Nosara is the moratorium on all tree cutting permits, issued by the Suprem Court of Costa Rica.