![]() ![]() Over the years, as Moín became dominated by delinquency and drugs, the friends they once had sold their properties and left.Īs in any community whose main income is drugs, affluence and poverty mix awkwardly here. The Lizanos have owned an animal sanctuary at seis millas for nearly a decade. I was traveling with Vanessa Lizano, a conservationist who worked closely with Mora, and her parents, Bernal and Marielos. ![]() When I visited, hoping to learn more about the young turtle conservationist Jairo Mora Sandoval, who was murdered on this beach in May of 2013, patrons of Moín’s roadside taverns stared coldly at our passing truck others ripped by us aggressively on all-terrain vehicles. The late American turtle biologist Archie Carr described this piece of coastline as “remote and dangerous,” and that was in the 1950s, long before cocaine and all its violence arrived. With so little around to see - few bars or homes or hotels - locals orient themselves on Moín by its mile points: tres millas, seis millas, nueve millas. From there the beach curves northwest, disappearing from view into a cloud of surf and mist. It begins at an aging shipping port where bananas and pineapples leave the country on container ships registered in Hong Kong and Monrovia. ![]() Moín Beach is a sparsely inhabited stretch of dark grey sands and coconut palms on Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast, just north of the city of Limón. ![]()
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