SAN JOSE -- A bikini-clad Britney Spears got her picture taken this weekend while relaxing and soaking up the sun on a Costa Rican beach where she was reportedly staying at actor Mel Gibson's property.

"She did it again," the La Nacion daily said Sunday in a play on Spears' 1999 chart-busting hit "Oops! ... I Did It Again."

"At five minutes to midday [Saturday], the artist appeared on scene on an ATV [all terrain vehicle] driving from the home of Mel Gibson, who invited her to spend a few days in Costa Rica" at his 163-hectare (402-acre) spread in the Pacific coast resort town of Samara, the daily said.

The story included several photos of the troubled pop star on Barrigona beach, in a bikini and sunglasses.

Spears was in the company of her father, Jamie Spears -- who apparently told the paparazzi they could shoot all they wanted as long as they kept at a 50-meter (yard) distance -- and a young couple, the daily said.

Gibson or his wife, Robyn Moore, was nowhere to be seen, it added.

Spears, 26, appears happier since a Los Angeles court on May 6 gave her more visitation time with her two children, who are in the custody of her ex-husband Kevin Federline since the couple split in 2006, amid her spiraling personal problems and fears for her mental health.

Spears shot to superstardom in late 1998 with her smash-hit debut album "Baby One More Time," which she followed with another chart-topping success the following year, "Oops! ... I Did It Again."