 Tree fern - Monteverde |
 Monteverede cloud forest from distance |
 The cloud forest in the clouds |
 Monteverde Reserve trail |
 Cloud forest tree loaded with epiphytes |
 Howler monkeys thru binoculars |
 Howler monkey |
 Time for the laser pointer Yehudi |
 The Monteverde hike |
 Junior and Senior on the Continental divide |
 The sunny side of the divide |
 Fern fiddlehead |
 Fiddleheads |
 Cloud forest palm fruits |
 White nosed Coati at Monteverde Reserve |
 Coati |
 Violet Sabrewing |
 Violet Sabrewing |
 Hummers at Monteverde feeder |
 Millipedes |
 Tink Frog?? Yehudi, help |
 Wolf spider - Monteverde night hike |
 Red Knee Tarantula |
 Bats |
 Blurry Agouti |
 Leaf cutter ant - soldier |
 Coffee (cafe) bean freshly picked |
 Anyone up for the zip line? |
 Coming in for a landing |
 Some gringo looking at birds |
 Cloud forest - home to hobbits and elves |
 canopy walkwaying |
 Resplendent Quetzal - male |
 Quetzal thru binocs |
 Trogon |
 Cecropia tree from above |
 Cloud forest bromeliad |
 Cloud forest epiphytes |
 Bromeliads and other epiphytes |
 El Bosque mascot - not very good at keeping scorpions away |
 Turquoise-browed Motmot |
 Crossing Laguna de Arenal |
 Approaching the lake from Monteverde |
 A traditional Tico oxcart |
 On the road to Lake Arenal |
 Cashew nut with fruit |
 sugar cane plantation |
 La Selva - OTS Biological Station |
 Rainforest surface roots |
 More surface roots |
 Rainforest vines |
 Amazing, huge rainforest giant with fines and epiphytes |
 Cool vine |
 Chesnut-mandibled Toucan |
 Collared Peccary |
 Rio Puerto Viejo at La Selva |
 Green and Black Poison Frog |
 Bullet Ant |
 Senor Bullet |
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 Golden Orb Weaver spider |
 Fer-de-Lance |
 Fer-de-Lance |
 Drip tip drop |
 Rainforest leaf drip tip |
 Visiting the family near Selva Verde |
 Tico hospitality |
 We left plenty |
 Learning a new skill |
 Does she have a future at this? |
 Luckily we had granola bars |
 Courage |
 Second thoughts |
 Black pepper plants, Pimienta |
 Black pepper berries |
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 Anyone hungry? |
 Some serious Tico hospitality |
 Green Iguana at Selva Verde |
 Green Basilisk |
 Termite tunnels on tree trunk |
 Heliconia flower |
 Millipede |
 Millipede |
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 Strawberry Poison Frog |
 Owl butterfly (Caligo sp.) caterpillar |
 Night Hike! Molting cicada |
 Another recent moltee |
 Spit Bug spit |
 A Long-horned Beetle |
 Steph's catch |
 Conehead Katydid |
 Another Conehead |
 Praying Mantis - well camouflaged |
 Glowing forest eyes |
 Carbunco? |
 Red-eyed Tree Frog eggs |
 Tree Frog eggs |
 Red-eyed Tree Frog at Selva Verde |
 Red-eyed Tree Frog |
 Mating season |
 Hey Yehudi - what species is this? |
 ridin da bus |
 La Paz waterfall |
 Keel-billed Toucan |
 Chesnut-mandibled Toucan |
 Collared Aracari |
 Collared Aracari |
 Blue Morpho butterfly |
 Crested Owls |
 Pura Vida |
 Don't fall out JG |
 Who's that guy in the boat? |
 River otter |
 Tiger-heron |
 Coffee plantation |
 Coffee |
 Coffee bushes |
 What, no rice and beans?? |
 Comida tipica |
 Lunch |
 Tasty plantains |
 Umm Yehudi...what is this stuff? |
 5 for a thousand |
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 Roadside stand |
 Mangos |
 Red mangrove forest, Pacific Coast |
 Crested caracara |
 Termite nest |
 On the Coast |
 Playa Hermosa |
 Black sand |
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 Fogged up view from breakfast |
 Manuel Antonio National Park |
 Manuel Antonio |
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 White-faced Capuchin Monkey |
 Comida tipica! |
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 Two toed sloth |
 We didn't get any looks this close |
 Northern Tamandua |
 Tamandua |
 Manuel Antonio black volcanic rocks |
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 Capuchin |
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 Guantanamera, guajira guantanamera |
 Carara NP old growth rainforest |
 Iguana parking |
 Leaf cutter ant |
 Leaf cutters |
 Strangler fig |
 Thats one big tree |
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 Acacia tree and symbiotic ants |
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 Green and Black Poison Frog |
 Swiss cheese plant |
 Self explanatory |
 Roseate spoonbills and white ibis |
 Little Blue Heron |
 Egret |
 Croc |
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 Fishing on the Rio Tarcoles |
 Alajuela at dusk |