1.PJP_Costa Rica.htm

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