After a very humid night with heavy rain bouncing off the tin roof, the dawn chorus was enough to wake us up at 07h00. Greeted by a beautiful blue sky and the sound of the waves crashing on the shore, we ate a very leisurely breakfast, so leisurely that some never arrived, before boarding the bus and heading for Cahuita, a national park covering coral reefs, coastal rain forest and semi-mangroves. Walking some 5 miles along the white sandy beach, with palm trees gently bending in the warm breeze was sheer delight. Overhead, howler monkeys lay sunning themselves, as did a family of iguana. On the ground, leaf-cutter ants busied themselves carrying their loads along cleared paths whilst large spiders hung awaiting their next meal.
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