Costa-Rica, April 2008 |
Here I come again. Tortuguero National Park |
amazing-frog |
on hammack |
beautiful-drying-wings |
beauty of the night |
on boat in Tortuguero |
Carabbeans from air |
coral reefs |
from my window |
Josephine, John, me and Leslie |
visiting a coffee plantation |
Britt, near St Jose |
neat visit |
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You collect the coffee beans |
when they are read |
then you peel them |
etc. |
Costa Rica has the best Arabica |
roasting furnace |
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Olga our guide to Tortuguero |
1st taking a bus for 3 hours |
over 2 rivers meeting |
each with a different color |
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After breakfast on the road |
we visit |
among others |
a banana plantation |
and see some huge |
monsters |
and drink coco milk |
here I hold the monster |
that's me faceless |
Joel has a face |
cutting into bunches |
the plantation itself |
in the plantation |
plastic covered banana bunches |
she's fearless |
banana bunches are pulled along |
Then we board a boat |
for an hour and a hald |
on a cannal leading |
to Tortuguero with Olga |
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a hawk or a vulture? |
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Did you see the spider monkey? |
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Tortuguero town as we approach it |
in our lodge |
a beautiful pool |
and dining room |
and water fall |
and a bridge |
and a frog sanctuary |
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See the tadpoles |
and a fully grown frog |
Eric shows us |
and lets us hold |
it feels like rubber |
 and looks like rubber
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but it's real with red eyes |
Eric's reflexion |
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The cabins |
on the way |
to the butterfly sanctuary |
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Here they are |
sitting on the bananas |
click to see the beauty |
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An orange and yellow one |
and a blue one |
 which is the other side of the brown
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here are two mating |
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banana flower |
resting near the canal |
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a huge spider |
scary |
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an old boat |
what a better use? |
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birds' nests |
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Here is another yellow bird |
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the police, best in the country |
to catch drug smugglers |
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only street in town |
with a church |
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and a cafe |
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masseuses |
we sat in this cafe |
for a capuccino |
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 wearing my new scarf
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and a mango duckery? |
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walking back to the lodge |
by the ocean side on the east |
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yoga stage |
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waiting for the sun to rise |
at 5:20 |
5:25 |
5:30 |
5:35 |
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5:40 |
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5:45 |
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embarking at 6 am |
for a tour |
puppy wants to come too |
so badly |
finally |
she discovers |
how to get into the water |
without jumping |
her 1st sweem |
flopping about |
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see the grey bird |
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here is another kind |
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 in the water
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 one can see
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the head of a baby c |
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See the bird? |
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and the night flower? |
that lasts only a day |
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see the bird |
and on the branch |
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no way to dry his wings |
except in the sun |
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a red bird |
what's in here? |
a bird watcher paradise |
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a modern bird |
over the water |
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 a toucan
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 the holler monkey
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when he screams |
he sounds like a lion |
hanging around |
what a life |
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in the grass |
enough watching monkeys |
back to cruising |
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Can you see it on the branch? |
here from close |
right above my head |
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looks like a dinausour |
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time to leave the paradise |
right after breakfast |
with some French people |
Costa Ricans |
and even Israelis |
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map of the area |
bye Tortuguero National Park |
here is the monkey right-top |
sex of the butterflies |