Yesterday we had an amazing day, we left the house at 8am did not return until close to 5pm. We were picked up by a driver (same one that brought us from the airport) and drove about 45 minutes to a Monkey Mangrove tour. We boarded a boat and were taken down a canal through the Mangrove trees to see the White-faced Monkeys. They were awesome! They jump right in the boat with you, climb all over you and want bananas! We all had a great time. Next we were off to the Manuel Antonio National Park with a quick stop for lunch. We stopped at a great picnic area for a quick lunch and off to the park. As most of you who know me know that I love taking pictures. Unfortunately I missed my favorite all time pic as we were driving...the roads are very narrow and people pull over all the time so you are passing other vehicles and basically playing chicken with oncoming traffic. As we crested the hill in our van we came to an abrupt stop as there was another tour van stopped in front of us, the driver was walking around their van so we decided to go around them not knowing what was what. As we drove past them (again playing chicken with oncoming traffic) we looked back to see the problem...a large 3 toed-slough was crossing the road. It was the most amazing sight as they move sooooo slow, I am pretty sure that image will never leave my head.
At the National Park we were met by our guide, Felix. He was very knowledgeable and had a spotting scope for us to see more of the animals. We saw Howler Monkey, several more sloths, lizards, raccoons, birds, etc. We did about a 3 mile round trip which was hot and sweaty. Everyone did great and we had a fantastic trip. After we left Felix we were met by our driver, Kenneth and stopped for Pizza and beer!
I have never seen the kids changed in record time and were in the pool about 5 minutes after we got out of the van. We were told that there was a Swell coming on Wed and to not spend anytime in the ocean as the current was to be very strong. The kids were fine with the pool and it was great to cool off after a long hot day.
Quinn celebrated her birthday with an amazing day!
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| Very Hot red peppers |
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| Cocoa Plants |
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| Fresh Coconut Milk |
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| Extremely poisonous snake |
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| These are called Jesus Christ Lizards because they walk on water! |
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| Tiger Heron |
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| Beautiful picnic spot |
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| Multi-colored cactus |
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| Sleeping sloth |
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| Baby JC Lizard |
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| Whippoorwill |
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| Howler Monkey |
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| Bats |
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| Banana Spider |
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| Much needed lunch after our hike |
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| Giggly girl |
