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   COSTA RICA

February 2007     a jungly place click photo for larger picture HOME

   At the time, February 2007, I just contributed to Helen's website: http://www.fands.org.uk/1.FANDSCostaRica.htm  I made this site later, all the pictures scanned from negatives or prints.

TORTUGUERO      

Costa Rica

Boats leaving Parismina for Tortuguero

Waiting for the boat

Tortuguero, a tourist village really, is at top right

Tortuguero Town Sign

Original Tree has been "eaten" by a strangler vine

A Night Heron

 A friendly Squirrel

Tortuguero General Store

Heliconia

 A pink house plus locals

"Monkey ladder"

One of the Tortuguero Creeks

Black and yellow beetle

A "Tortuguero Hotel" launch on the Tortuguero Canal, the sea is very shallow

"Small Blue" Heron 

Montezuma Oropendula Nests

Large White Heron

Banded Owl Butterfly

Black river turtles 

Tortuguero Catholic Church with no path to the door.

Looking down on the canopy

Aerial Tram over the rain forest

"Monkey Ladder" Liana

Village house

Large red aphids

The Tortuguero Canal damaged by earthquake from our plane 

Turtle Beach

Jamaican style house Tortuguero

   

Twin Otter leaves Tortuguero. There was no road 

ARENAL VOLCANO

The long view of Volcano Arenal

The summit of volcano, Arenal

An arrow points to the volcano

Port Arenal

Lower falls at La Paz

A Baby Cayman

Night Heron hunting baby Cayman

Liana with Bromilliads

A butterfly Siproeta stelenes

A village Church

Iguana

View of Volcano Arenal from oue hotel

Our guides boss, a bit of a thug

Strangler Vine on a tree  

Anhinga, Snake bird 

Swiss-like lakeside Arenal

     

A Giant Bamboo which was an owl roost 

Helen on a "Hanging Bridge", Selvatura

Jersey cross Brahma Cow on Rio Fortuna farm

 

A Boa Constrictor at the Bioparque

MONTEVERDE      

Owl Moth outside

One handed photo, Blue Morph

A Tican Cowboy

Village Church

Green Hermit Hummingbird 

Hanging Bridge over cloud forest Monteverde

Howler Monkey

Monarch Butterfly

       
CORCAVADO      

Corcovado Lodge Landing point

Jungle Falls

Crocodile lurking

Spider with remains of a rival

       

Corcavado is at the bottom

The boat for Corcocavardo at Sierpe

Great Potoo Chick on the river bank

A boatyard Sierpe river

A refreshing swim in the jungle

 

"Glass" frog

Leaf frog

 

Howler Monkey

Iguana in mating dress

Dawn bird watch at Corcovado with an American whose legs were devastated by mosquito bites

Pedro, the Chief Warden and Manfred our guide

Cano Island and yacht sailing by

Northern Jacana,"Lily walker"

A Coati begging at the kitchen

A large Cayman

"Postman" Hybrid Butterfly

The "Goth" with Hercules Beetle

La Paz Waterfall

Lichens

Emerald Basilisk

"Enamelled" Tree Frog

Pedro, Chief Ranger Corcovado

A traditional Oxcart

Palmar Park with Lithic Spheres made by pre-colombian Disquis people

Mangroves

Milk trees bleeds white sap

Night Heron

Orchids

       

Mallow?

Poison Dart Frog

Derelict Banana Loco Palmar

A country house

Another village church 

Ice cold coconuts

A Cicada

American Whiptail Lizard

   

Red legged blue honey creeper

       

"Flame in the forest" tree

 Capuchin Monkey

Green Kingfisher

Palmar Sur Airport, Departures

Landing at Palmar Sur

Palmar Sur    

Palmar Sur "Airport"

SAN JOSE      

San Jose is in the Centre

The Ramada hotel

Through the bus window

Lisa and Chris

A traffic short cut San Jose, the road was jammed

A street in San Jose

Houses with barred Windows, San Jose

The Ramada

Bullet Ants 

     

OLD HACIENDA Rio Fortuna

Reception Class Rio Fortuna, 6.5 years

A Cowboy

Government Prefab for a homeless migrant family

Peter etc making tortillas

A Traditional Meal on a banana leaf

Smallholder Alginaldo & wife 

Traditionally made Coffee

 

Old Hacienda Living room, was owned by a wealthy official

Hacienda Bedroom

A Passion Flower

A toad in the hand

Barethroated Tiger Heron

Off the Pan American Highway

Hummingbird taking off, wings too fast to photograph

Baselisk lizard

Raccoon

Service Area Pan American Highway

 

 

Banana packing factory, most estates have closed as the land is exhausted

Two toed sloth in isolated tree on the farm

Student Lunch Break Corcovado

Leafcutter ants

Julia Butterfly

A privy

Basilisk, Jesus Christ Lizard 

Great White Heron

Fer-de-Lance snake

Jorge

Spider Monkey

Longnose bat

Longnose bats camouflaged

   

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