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Hotel El Icaco Tortuguero – Tortuguero National Park – Tortuguero Village

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Thursday 27/10/2022   Hotel El Icaco Tortuguero – Tortuguero National Park – Tortuguero Village

                                           Tortuguero National Park

                                           Limón Province, COSTA RICA

                                                                          

Participants: Stephen Davies (Photos, Report), Sue Davies, Cal Stewart, Kerrie Stewart

Following on from our guided night walk, canal canoeing and day walk over the previous 36 hours, today we opted to venture out on our own. Already fully aware that previously our guides had been the first to locate and identify 90% of our sightings we were hoping our observational skills may have improved a touch.

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Hotel El Icaco Tortuguero – Tortuguero National Park

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Wednesday 26/10/2022   Hotel El Icaco Tortuguero – Tortuguero National Park

                                               Tortuguero National Park

                                               Limón Province, COSTA RICA

Participants: Adrian (Guide), Stephen Davies (Photos, Report), Sue Davies, Cal Stewart, Kerrie Stewart

For our afternoon we had booked a two-hour guided walk in Tortuguero National Park with our guide, Adrian. We got underway at 2:00pm after Adrian managed to gain us free park entry after Sue had had numerous failed attempts at making and paying for our reservations on the National Parks website, the only method provided for doing so. It turned out their system was down.

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Curi-Cancha Reserve – Quebrada Maquina

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Tuesday 18/10/2022   Curi-Cancha Reserve – Quebrada Maquina

                                         Monte Verde

                                         COSTA RICA

Participants: Beth Davies, Stephen Davies (Photos), Sue Davies (Report), Felipe Ureña-Araya, Pablo Ureña Vega, Cal Stewart, Kerrie Stewart

After Sue, Beth, Pablo and Felipe had returned from their morning 8km run we headed out for a short local walk in the nearby Curi-Cancha Reserve. The rest of us had remained at our Airbnb on the edge of Monte Verde doing a spot of bird watching from our second-storey outdoor balcony. From here there were views across some open grassland and forest as far as the Pacific Ocean. I had the good fortune to observe two toucans fly across the grassland and land near the high point of a tree 100 and something metres away. Needless to say, I snapped off a number of photos at the 500mm end of my zoom lens and was very happy with the results. We also saw about half a dozen other species in close proximity. With the sun behind us and a thin cloud cover, there was plenty of bright, soft light to get great shots.

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Chilamate Rainforest Eco Resort – COSTA RICA

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29/10/2022 – 31/10/2023  Chilamate Rainforest Eco Resort                                    

                                               COSTA RICA                                                                 

Participants: Stephen Davies (Photos, Report), Sue Davies, Cal Stewart, Kerrie Stewart

Nestled amongst trees at the edge of the forest we found ourselves at our final Costa Rican destination for this trip, Chilamate Rainforest Eco Resort. This family-run sustainable eco-lodge is located just off the highway in Sarapiqui about two hours north of San Jose. It is a private reserve consisting of 20 hectares of rainforest with monkeys, many species each of frogs, birds and insects.

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