| By: Paul S. Cilwa | Viewed: 5/5/2024 Occurred: 5/20/2022 |
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| Topics: #Coronavirus #Maui | |||
| The Costa Rica trip. | |||
Jenny's been wanting to visit this national park since we arrived, but today was our first chance to do so. On the way there, we also took a half hour to look at a house for sale.
One of the reasons for the trip to Costa Rica was for Jenny to look at real estate. She told the real estate agent her requirements: Number of rooms, relatively isolated, and near a beach. This was the house he took us to see.
It's certainly a lovely place.
However, the view from the porch showed no sign of beach, or even distant ocean. Very, very pretty—but not what she was looking for,
So we returned to Quepos and headed for the Park.
Back in 1973, I was a pest control guy for King Pest Control in Fort Lauderdale. Truly Nolen was our biggest competitor. So this truck's signage tickled me.
So we reached the Park (it's not far from our resort) and set out on a stroll along some of the nature trails and walkways.
Even though the walkways form a maze, there are plenty of maps to assist.
Lots of these little crabs along the way.
There are four species of monkey are native to the forests of Costa Rica:, the Central American squirrel monkey (Saimiri oerstedii), the Panamanian white-faced capuchin (Cebus imitator), the mantled howler (Alouatta palliata) and Geoffroy's spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi). This little guy is a white-faced capuchin.
We saw leafcutter ants (who have mandibles that can inflict a nasty bite) and a tree whose specially shaped trumk anchors it in the soft and often wet marsh.
This young man is fascinated by the wildlife. And he has sharp eyes; he kept spotting teeny crabs off the trail and pointing them out.
And this, folks, is a sloth. They're generally pretty well hidden in the branches; and they move so slowly they're easy to miss entirely.
This little guy is an agouti, a rodent that lives in Costa Rica.
Our last bit of wildlife before returning to the resort: An iguana.
Pura Vida (pure life) is Costa Rica's motto; people here say it more often than Hawaiians say "Aloha!". They use it to say hello, goodbye, and in place of "Okay". It looks like someone designing tourist shirts got sick of it.
And so, back at our suite, I checked my phone's step counter. Not bad for a guy who's essentially crippled with bad Achilles tendons!
