Costa Rica

Costa Rica

Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica
May 2nd 2009

Published: May 17th 2009

With a few great weeks of Nicaragua under our belt, we headed south once again into Costa Rica. Having heard from many people that Costa Rica is too developed, expensive and not as good as Nicaragua or Panama, we decided to focus on a few National Parks too see for ourselves. After dealing with cordobas in Nicaragua for a few weeks, where a Canadian dollar would get around 15, 450 colones made e... Read Full Entry

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Deserted Beach

In Carate

Hermit Crab Stare Down

One of a million

Tired Mama

We watched this Olive Ridley turtle crawl up the beach, lay her eggs, fill in pack down the sand and, exhausted, crawl back down to the ocean.

Homeward Bound

Britt with the turtle mom after she had laid her eggs and was scuttling back to the ocean.

Homward Bound II

One more photo op before she hits the ocean

Falcon

Vultures

Central American "Racoon"

Just chillin.'

Beach Walk

On our hike into the Corcovado National Park

More Scarlet Macaws

These wild parrots were in many of the trees lining the beach.

Squirrel Monkey

How you doin

Andrew relaxes with a tapir.

Tapir

We disturbed its slumber.

Tapir

Ultra Relaxed

An ant eater strikes a comfortable pose.

Ant Eater Retreat

The ant eater's escape route from Andrew was a little weak.

Hermit Crabs Everywhere

There were thousounds of these on the beach and in the forest.

Scarlet Love

A scarlet macaw pair--you'd rarely see one alone.

Corocovado Break

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