Costa Rica – Wildlife
Recently we had some guests in the lodge from Nicaragua and Chili who were fluent in Spanish. The ability to speak multiple languages is a skill I envy so much. I would love to be able to stroll the streets of Paris asking for a baguette or buy fresh fruit from the markets in Mexico with the ease of the local language.
In my mind I have a wonderful fantasy of living in Greece and learning Latin to help me get a grasp on the base of a lot of these languages.
It is not the right time for us to move to Greece, but the day dreaming has brought me back to the amazing six week trip we took through out Costa Rica and a bit into Nicaragua. We took buses all over Costa Rica and hiked into jungles looking for wildlife.
I hear so many amazing travelers tales from from South and Central America. It is a place I cannot wait to go back to. Until that time happens, here’s a walk down memory lane and a look at a some of the amazing wild life we saw while heavily using a dictionary to piece together very bad Spanish.
Looks like you had a WONDERFUL trek through the rain forest. The basalisks have always been one of my favorite lizards and would love to have seen them in the wild!
It felt like we were in a National Geographic documentary when we watched them running across the water.
Chris’s day off:
“This is the bare throated heron… It will stand on one leg for hours drying it’s wings and I found that just fascinating.”
So does this mean you think Chris stands on one leg? 🙂 More like, he puts on head phones and watches sports. 🙂
I think it meant Chris gets a day off because you spent hours watching a bird dry its wings.
Oh…well…hahaha….that is true. One of my favorite birds to watch is ducks. I don’t know why. I just love watching ducks and Chris always gets so impatient because he’ll want to get on to try and see something else and I could just watch ducks for hours.
Really should tell you that the bird is a Bare Throated Heron and NOT a duck!
Well the bare throated heron stood for so long on one leg I just kept watching and watching and watching wondering when he might switch legs. We had to paddle away before any of the herons we spotted switched legs. They stood like that for a long, long time.
Costa Rica esta muy bonita!! Tiene mucho animales de la loca y esta muy caliente.
Si, si, me hermana. Pero no habla mas por que no tengo mi dictionario. 🙂