John (west central FL)
New member
I just got back from two weeks of driving the roads in Costa Rica with my sister and my brother-in-law. My GPS receiver saved our butts on several occasions.
Driving in Costa Rica is nothing like it is here in the USA. Signs are few and often confusing. I brought along my Lowrance iFinder H2Oc with the Map Create map for Costa Rica loaded onto the SD card. The map for that area only has some of the major roads but it still helped us a lot. Also, before I left home I used Google Earth to get coordinates for many of the towns in Costa Rica. I manually entered these in the iFinder to create waypoints.
It was very helpful having our trail traced on the map. This allowed us to just follow our trail back on the return trips. Several times we missed a turn and the only reason we knew it was because we could see that our trail on the GPS receiver's display was no longer overlapping our previous trail. I hate to think of how far we would have gone off course without using GPS. I would never consider going there again without my GPSR.
This photo is one I made of a waterfall in Braulio Carrillo National Park.
John
Driving in Costa Rica is nothing like it is here in the USA. Signs are few and often confusing. I brought along my Lowrance iFinder H2Oc with the Map Create map for Costa Rica loaded onto the SD card. The map for that area only has some of the major roads but it still helped us a lot. Also, before I left home I used Google Earth to get coordinates for many of the towns in Costa Rica. I manually entered these in the iFinder to create waypoints.
It was very helpful having our trail traced on the map. This allowed us to just follow our trail back on the return trips. Several times we missed a turn and the only reason we knew it was because we could see that our trail on the GPS receiver's display was no longer overlapping our previous trail. I hate to think of how far we would have gone off course without using GPS. I would never consider going there again without my GPSR.
This photo is one I made of a waterfall in Braulio Carrillo National Park.
John