What a long day... We started early at 5 am with a bird walk with Alvaro, our guide. The first half hour or so was not too bird filled and I thought that I might have a mutiny on my hands soon with all the grumpy and sleepy faces. But, as the birds warmed up so did we and the hike around the area was a great success. We saw the Magenta-throated Woodstar (a tiny, tiny hummingbird), loads of Emerald Toucanets (yippee!!), A Black Guan (a huge turkey-like bird), a Blue-crowned Motmot, Short-billed Pigeons, Great-tailed Grackles, Brown Jays, Varigated Squirrels and more... it was a good time and a good walk up a big hill to start our day.
After breakfast we were on the bus for a long ride down the mountains to the west. We did see Black Spiny Tailed Iguanas and David saw a snake that he identified later (sorry I don´t have the name right now). I´d like to saw the ride was great but really it was just long. I took pictures of the crew sleeping our day away and making up for the rest we didn´t get during the bird walk.
We stopped for lunch at a place on the Panamerican Highway (Central America Highway 1) which is fortunately paved and in good shape right now. At our lunch stop there were amazing animals that the owners keep including 4 Scarlet Macaws (native to SW CR), two Blue and Yellow Macaws (from Brazil) and deer that they apparently keep for meat as they were loading a dead one onto the trunk while we were there (or maybe that was lunch?).
Back on the road for about 1.5 hours we finally arrived at our hotel and settled in with more space that we have had, most are in rooms of two for the first time. The kids played a heated game of girls (33) against boys (5) pool basketball. You can guess the girls won the game but I wasn´t under the impression that the boys were interested in the score.
Today being Easter Sunday and this being Latin America the thing to do tonight was go to mass in the village. All of us went to be a part of this religious and cultural experience and I think that everyone enjoyed really being among the people. Mass in Spanish is remarkably similar to English and some of us were able to follow along decently.
After we returned we were all truly beat and went off to bed in anticipation of the next day at the beach.
More to come... Judy
After breakfast we were on the bus for a long ride down the mountains to the west. We did see Black Spiny Tailed Iguanas and David saw a snake that he identified later (sorry I don´t have the name right now). I´d like to saw the ride was great but really it was just long. I took pictures of the crew sleeping our day away and making up for the rest we didn´t get during the bird walk.
We stopped for lunch at a place on the Panamerican Highway (Central America Highway 1) which is fortunately paved and in good shape right now. At our lunch stop there were amazing animals that the owners keep including 4 Scarlet Macaws (native to SW CR), two Blue and Yellow Macaws (from Brazil) and deer that they apparently keep for meat as they were loading a dead one onto the trunk while we were there (or maybe that was lunch?).
Back on the road for about 1.5 hours we finally arrived at our hotel and settled in with more space that we have had, most are in rooms of two for the first time. The kids played a heated game of girls (33) against boys (5) pool basketball. You can guess the girls won the game but I wasn´t under the impression that the boys were interested in the score.
Today being Easter Sunday and this being Latin America the thing to do tonight was go to mass in the village. All of us went to be a part of this religious and cultural experience and I think that everyone enjoyed really being among the people. Mass in Spanish is remarkably similar to English and some of us were able to follow along decently.
After we returned we were all truly beat and went off to bed in anticipation of the next day at the beach.
More to come... Judy
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