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Return to Day 8 - to Manuel Antonio
It's a Sunday, so it's an early start into the National Park itself as numbers are capped each day.
The walk to the beach was through lowland rainforest that teemed with life.
Many of the trees had crabs patrolling the trunks...
Swallowtail Butterfly...
Somewhat less cute, a mother Tarantula with young...
Locust - about 6 inches long...
More fancy Heliconia Bracht action...
Adult Sloth - our closest encounter to date...
The beach, don't be fooled by the clouds, it was plenty warm enough...
and some fine lizards - female Ctenosaur...
Where there are females... it didn't take long for a male to arrive...
Showing off...
Before settling down on the beach for a relaxing afternoon of sunbathing (burning in my case) we took a walk to a nearby headland for a better view. The jungle was pretty dense and the paths very muddy, with occasional glimpses out to the ocean...
It was supposed to be quite empty of larger wildlife, but we still saw raccoons, a sloth and a number of Agouti's. Here one is having a munch in the dim light under the canopy, even though it was nearly noon...
There were some good waves to play in...
The group relaxing...
On the wander back we had more Sloth action...
Very unfussed White-Tailed Deer...
A Cherrie's Tanager near the hotel...
More tucking into bananas at a bird table...
That night we ate at a place called El Avion, which incorporated a whole Fairchild C-123 aircraft into the building. It was one of two used by the CIA to supply arms to the Contras in Nicaragua - the other one was shot down...
The bar was in the cargo hold...
Next Stop - Day 10 - to Golfito
