Tag Archives: Limón Province

Hotel El Icaco Tortuguero – Tortuguero National Park – Tortuguero Village

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

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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Rio Tortuguero Canoe Trip

Wednesday 26/10/2022   Hotel El Icaco Tortuguero – Tortuguero Village – Rio Tortuguero – Canales del Tortuguero Rogelio Pardo Jochs

                                               Tortuguero National Park

                                              Limón Province, COSTA RICA

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

Late yesterday we had been greeted by our English-speaking guide Adrian as we arrived at the carpark at La Pavona. This is the “ferry” terminal for transporting people, goods and everything else to Tortuguero 19km, 90 minute trip to the east on the Caribbean coast along Rio Suerte from La Pavona. There are dozens of these long, shallow draft, fibreglass craft constantly ferrying people back and forth along the narrow, shallow tidal canals. Masterful boatmen navigate these canals negotiating a multitude of sharp turns, shallows, concealed boulders and submerged fallen trees multiple times each day with barely the slightest of scrapes across the shallow bottom at low tide.

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Hotel El Icaco Tortuguero – Tortuguero Village

Tuesday 25/10/2022   Hotel El Icaco Tortuguero – Tortuguero Village

                                         Tortuguero National Park

                                         Limón Province, COSTA RICA

Participants: Bernardo (Guide), Stephen Davies (Photos, Report), Sue Davies, Cal Stewart, Kerrie Stewart, two others.

Seven of us left Hotel El Icaco in Tortuguero at 6:20pm, walking out through the northern end of town and along the beachside trail on a warm, dark, moonless night. In several places, we headed off onto small barely existent sidetracks. Tonight our two-hour wildlife tour was led by Bernardo, a local professional guide. 

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Popone Farm and Lodge – Rio Molino

Monday 24/10/2022   Popone Farm and Lodge – Rio Molino

                                        Calle Uno from the 32 route, 4 km south, in Calle 1, Guápiles

                                        Limón Province, COSTA RICA

Participants: Jorge (Our host and Guide), Stephen Davies (Photos, Report), Sue Davies, Cal Stewart, Kerrie Stewart

Wow, what a surprise package! Sue had selected this small eco-farmstay as a convenient stopover on our way across to the Caribbean side of Costa Rica from Hacienda La Pacifica just to the south of Guápiles.

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